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articleg of Sncorporation 

The undersigned, being persons of lawful age, associate under 
'^'- the provisions of chapter 147 of the Public Statutes of New 

<> . Hampshire by the following 

ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT. 
■^ Article I. The name of this corporation shall be the Society 

'!i of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hampshire. 

\4^, Article II. The objects for which this corporation is es- 

tablished are to perpetuate the names, memory, or deeds of 
those brave and courageous men who, in military, naval or civil 
service, by their acts or counsel assisted in the establishment 
and continuance of the American Colonies from the settlement 
of Jamestown, Virginia, May 13th, 1607, to the Battles of Lex- 
ington and Concord, April 19th, 1775; to collect and secure for 
preservation the manuscripts, rolls, records, and other docu- 
ments relating to that period of colonial history; to inspire 
among the members and their descendants the fraternal and 
patriotic spirit of their forefathers, and to inculcate in the com- 
munity respect and reverence for the acts and principles of those 
indomitable men which made the freedom and unity of our 
country a possibility. 

Article III. The place in which the business of this cor- 
poration is to be carried on is the City of Concord in the State 
of New Hampshire. 

Article IV. No capital stock. 

Article V. The first meeting of the corporation was held in 
the City of Concord, State of New Hampshire, on Thursday, 
September 27th, A. D. 1894. 
Henry Oakes Kent, George Herbert Gross, 

Charles Langdon Tappan, Hosea Emery Bowen, 
Frederick Bacon Philbrook, Frederick Walter Clapp, 
Franklin Senter Frisbee, George Henry Bowen, 
William Lithgow Willey, Frederick Lincoln Bangs, 
George Albert Senter, Charles McClary Bangs, 

Henry Steadman Jackson, Charles Calhoun Philbrook. 



STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

Office of Secretary of State, 
Concord, September 28, 1894. 
Received and recorded in records of Voluntary Corporations, 
vol. 8, pages 111-12-13. 

EZRA S. STEARNS, 

Secretary of State. 




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Introductory Note. 



At the adjourned Nineteenth Annual Court of the 
Society, held at the State House, in Concord, October 
seventh, 1912, the following named Officers of the Society — 

John Calvin Thorne, Deputy Governor-General ; also Secre- 
tary-Treasurer of N. H. Society ; 

Justin Harvey Smith, Governor of the New Hampshire 
Society ; 

Irving Allison Watson, Registrar and Genealogist ; 

were chosen a committee to prepare and publish a volume 
— In Memoriam — of our recently deceased members, with 
their portraits, and containing brief sketches of their lives. 
Those deceased since have also been added. 

There appears a list of present Officers, Committees and 
Members, and a Chronicle of the Society from its organiza- 
tion, September, 1894, to September, 1913, including the 
Twentieth Annual Court, held at Dover, September 9, 1913. 
Also the Constitution and By-Laws. 

In addition there is presented the address, on the occa- 
sion of our Nineteenth Annual Court, at Concord, of the 
Hon. James 0. Lyford, Naval Officer of Customs, Boston; 
subject, "Our Government, the Evolutio7i of Colonial Ex- 
perience." 

This volume is respectfully submitted by the Committee, 
in the name and in the honor of the Society of Colonial 
Wars in the State of New Hampshire. 

For the Committee — 

JOHN CALVIN THORNE, 

Secretary-Treasurer. 
Concord, May, 1914. 



Preamble to the Constitution. 



Whereas, It is desirable that there should be adequate 
celebrations commemorative of the events of Colonial 
history happening from the settlement of Jamestown, Va., 
May 13, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775 : 

Therefore, The Society of Colonial Wars has been in- 
stituted to perpetuate the memory of those events, and 
of the men who, in military, naval, and civil positions of 
high trust and responsibility, by their acts or counsel, 
assisted in the establishment, defense, and preservation of 
the American Colonies, and were in truth the founders of 
this nation. With this end in view, it seeks to collect and 
preserve manuscripts, rolls, relics, and records ; to provide 
suitable commemorations or memorials relating to the 
American colonial period, and to inspire in its member^ 
the fraternal and patriotic spirit of their forefathers, and 
in the community, respect and reverence for those whose 
public services made our freedom and unity possible. 



The Constitution of the General Society of Colonial 
Wars has been adopted by the Society of Colonial Wars 
in the State of New Hampshire except where modified by 
the By-Laws of the State Society. 



By-Laws. 

SECTION I. 

Name. 

The Society shall be known by the name, style and 
title of "Society op Colonial Wars in the State of New 
Hampshire." 

Officers. 

The officers of the Society shall be a Governor, a Deputy- 
Governor, a Lieutenant-Governor, a Secretary, a Treasurer, 
a Registrar, an Historian, a Genealogist, a Chaplain, and 
a Chancellor; these shall be ex-officio members and con- 
stitute the Council, with five other members elected for that 
purpose and chosen annually. 

The Deputy-Governor-General, the Society's representa- 
tive in the General Society, shall also be ex-officio a member 
of the Council. 

SECTION III. 

Fees and Dues. 

The initiation fee shall be ten (10) dollars; the annual 
dues shall be three (3) dollars, payable the first day of 
January of each year. The payment at one time of fifty 
(50) dollars shall constitute a life membership, and exempt 
the member so paying from initiation fee and annual dues. 

Any member, at his election to membership or subse- 
quently, who may contribute one hundred (100) dollars 
to the ''permanent fund" of the Society shall be exempt 
from payment of annual dues, and this exemption shall 
extend in perpetuity to his lineal successors in membership 



10 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

from the same propositus, one at a time, who may be 
selected for such exemption by the Society, said perpetual 
membership to be transmitted by the holder, subject to the 
approval of the Society. 

The non-payment of an initiation fee within six months 
of the election of a candidate shall make such election null 
and void. 

Any fees of the General Society of a special nature, such 
as fees for filing applications, shall be borne by the indi- 
vidual members to whom they may apply, and not by the 
Society. 

Any member who shall be in arrears one year in pay- 
ment of annual dues shall be liable to suspension or ex- 
pulsion, and his name and ancestry shall be omitted by 
the Secretary from the Year Book of the Society. 

SECTION IV. 

Governor. 

The Governor, or in his absence the Deputy-Governor, 
or Lieutenant-Governor, or Chairman pro tempore, shall 
preside at all Courts of the Society, and shall exercise 
the duties of a presiding officer under parliamentary rules, 
subject to an appeal to the Society. The Governor shall 
be a member ex-officio of all standing committees. He shall 
have power to convene the Council at his discretion, or upon 
the written request of two members of the Council, or 
upon the like request of five members of the Society. 

SECTION V. 
Secretary. 

The Secretary shall conduct the general correspondence 
of the Society, and keep a record thereof. He shall notify 



IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 1 1 

all elected candidates of their admission, and perform such 
other duties as the Society or his office may require. He 
shall have charge of the seal, certificates of incorporation, 
by-laws, historical, and other documents and records of the 
Society other than those required to be deposited with the 
Registrar, and shall affix the seal to all properly authenti- 
cated certificates of membership, and transmit the same to 
the members to whom they may be issued. He shall notify 
the Registrar of all admissions to membership. He shall 
certify all acts of the Society, and when required authenti- 
cate them under seal. He shall have charge of printing 
the publications issued by the Society. He shall give due 
notice of the time and place of the holding of all Courts 
of the Society and of the Council. He shall keep fair and 
accurate records of all the proceedings and orders of the 
Society and of the CouncU, and shall give notice to each 
officer who may be affected by them of all votes, resolu- 
tions, and proceedings of the Society, or of the Council, 
and at the General Court, or oftener, shall report the names 
of those candidates who have been admitted to membership, 
and those whose resignations have been accepted, and of 
those members whose membership has ceased for other 
causes. In his absence from any meeting a Secretary pro 
tempore may be designated therefor. 

SECTION VI. 
Treasurer. 

The Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds and 
securities of the Society. Out of these funds he shall pay 
only such sums as may be ordered by the Society or Council, 
or his office or that of the Secretary may require. He shall 
keep a true account of his receipts and payments, and at 
each annual meeting render the same to the Society. For 



12 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

the faithful performance of his duty he may be required 
to give such security as the Society may deem proper. 

SECTION VII. 
Registrar. 

The Registrar shall receive from the Secretary and file 
all the proofs upon which membership has been granted, 
with a list of all diplomas countersigned by him, and all 
documents which the Society may obtain; and he, under 
the direction of the Council, shall make copies of such 
papers as the owners may not be willing to leave in the 
keeping of the Society. 

SECTION VIII. 
Historian. 

The Historian shall keep a detailed record of all his- 
torical and commemorative celebrations of the Society, and 
shall edit and prepare for publication such historical 
addresses, papers, and other documents as the Society may 
see fit to publish; also a necrological list for each year, 
with biographies of deceased members. 

SECTION IX. 

Genealogist. 

The Genealogist shall investigate all applications for 
membership and shaU pass upon all claims for supple- 
mentals. His approval on all applications shall be re- 
quired before they are filed with the Registrar of the 
State or General Society. An appeal from his decision 
may be taken to the Committee on Membership and at 



IN THE STA TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 13 

their discretion to the Society. He shall be exempt from 
annual assessment and may receive such compensation as 
the Council shall decide. 

SECTION X. 
Chancellor. 

The Chancellor shall be a lawyer duly admitted to the 
bar, and it shall be his duty to give legal opinion on 
matters affecting the Society when called upon by any 
officer. 

SECTION XI. 

Chaplain. 

The Chaplain shall be an ordained minister of a Christian 
church, and it shall be his duty to officiate when called upon 
by the proper officers. 

SECTION XII. 

Council. 

The Council shall have power to call special Courts of 
the Society and arrange for celebrations by the Society. 
They shall have control and management of the affairs 
and funds of the Society. They shall perform such duties 
as shall be prescribed by the Constitution and By-Laws, 
but they shall at no time be required to take any action or 
contract any debt for which they shall be liable. They 
may accept the resignation of any member of the Society. 
They may meet as often as required or at the call of the 
Governor. Five members shall constitute a quorum for 
the transaction of business ; at the General Court they shall 
submit to the Society a report of their proceedings during 



14 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

the past year. The Council shall have the power to drop 
from the roll the name of any member of the Society who 
shall be in arrears at least one year in payment of annual 
dues, and shall fail on proper notice to pay the same within 
sixty days, and on being dropped his membership shall 
cease; but he may be restored to membership at any time 
by the Council upon his written application and the pay- 
ment of all such arrears from the date when he was dropped 
to the date of his restoration. The Council may suspend 
any officer for cause, which must be reported to the Society, 
and action taken on the same within thirty days. A careful 
record of all proceedings shall be kept and these records 
shall be the property of the Society. 

SECTION XIII. 

Vacancies and Terms of Office. 

Whenever an officer of this Society shall die, resign, or 
neglect to serve, or be suspended, or be unable to perform 
his duties by reason of absence, sickness, or other cause, 
and whenever an office shall be vacant which the Society 
shall not have filled by an election, the Council shall have 
power to appoint a member to such office pro tempore, 
who shall act in such capacity until the Society shall elect 
a member to the vacant office, or until the inability due to 
said cause shall cease; provided, however, that the office of 
Governor shall not be filled by the Council when there shall 
be a Deputy or Lieutenant-Governor to enter on the duties. 

The Council may supply vacancies among its members 
under the same conditions, and should any member, other 
than an officer, be absent from three consecutive Councils 
of the same, his place may be declared vacant by the 
Council and filled by appointment until a successor is 
elected. 



IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 15 

Subject to these provisions, all officers and gentlemen 
of the Council shall, from the time of election, continue in 
their respective offices until the next General Court, or 
until their successors are chosen. 

SECTION XIV. 
Resignation. 

No resignation of any member shall become effective 
unless consented to by the Council or by vote of the 
Society. 

SECTION XV. 

Disqualifications. 

No person who may be enrolled as a member of this 
Society shall be permitted to continue in membership when 
his proofs of descent or eligibility shall be found to be 
defective. The Council, after thirty days' notice to such 
person to substantiate his claim, and upon his failure satis- 
factorily to do so, may require the Secretary to erase his 
name from the membership list. The said person shall 
have a right to appeal to the Society at its next Court, or 
at the General Court. If the said appeal be sustained by 
a two-thirds vote of the members present at such Court, 
the said person's name shall be restored to said membership 
list. 

SECTION XVI. 

Eligihility to Membership. 

Any male person above the age of twenty-one years, 
of good moral character and reputation, shall be eligible 
to membership in the Society of Colonial Wars who is 



16 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

lineally descended in the male or female line from an 
ancestor : 

(1). Who served as a military or naval officer, or as a 
soldier, sailor, or marine, or as a privateersman, under 
authority of the Colonies, which afterwards formed the 
United States, or in the forces of Great Britain which 
participated with those of the said Colonies in any wars 
in which the said Colonies were engaged, or in which they 
enrolled men, from the settlement of Jamestown, May 13, 
1607, to the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775 ; or 

(2). Who held office in any of the Colonies between the 
dates above mentioned, either as 

(a). Director-General, Vice Director-General, or mem- 
ber of the Council or legislative body in the Colony of 
New Netherlands ; 

(&). Governor, Lieutenant or Deputy-Governor, Lord 
Proprietor, member of the King's or Governor's Council 
or legislative body in the Colonies of New York, New 
Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware ; 

(c). Lord Proprietor, Governor, Deputy-Governor, or 
member of the Council or of the legislative body in Mary- 
land and the Carolinas; 

(d). Governor, Deputy-Governor, Governor's Assistant, 
or Commissioner to the United Colonies of New England, 
or member of the Council, body of Assistants or legislative 
body in any of the New England Colonies; provided that 
descent from Deputies to the General Assembly who per- 
formed no military service, shall not be available for 
entrance into this Society, but may be used for supple- 
mentary proof of honorable descent. 

Applicants for membership must first make out a pre- 
liminary application endorsed by two members of the 
Society. 



IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 17 

No application for membership will be accepted based 
only on traditional statements, nor unless such applica- 
tion be accompanied by a paged reference to public records 
or recognized authority, authenticating such service or 
rank, or when proof depends upon private documents, by 
copies duly authenticated of such documents. 

The admission fee of ten dollars, and the annual dues 
of three dollars, must accompany the preliminary appli- 
cation. 

SECTION XVII. 

Committee on Membership. 

The Committee on Membership shall consist of five 
members. They shall be chosen by ballot at the General 
Court of the Society, and shall be elected for the period 
of one year. They shall pass upon the preliminary applica- 
tion of all applicants for membership. Three members 
shall constitute a quorum, and a negative vote of two 
members shall cause an adverse report to the Council or 
the Society on the candidate 's application. The proceeding 
of the Committee shall be secret and confidential; and a 
candidate who has been rejected by the Council or the 
Society shall be ineligible for membership for a space of 
one year from date of rejection, except upon the unanimous 
vote of the Committee. 

The Committee shall have power to make By-Laws for 
its government, and for other purposes not inconsistent 
with the Constitution or By-Laws of the Society. 

The Society may at any regularly called meeting resolve 
itself into a committee of the whole and act as a committee 
on membership. 



18 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

SECTION XVIII. 
Expulsion or Suspension. 

Any member for cause or conduct detrimental or an- 
tagonistic to the interest or purpose of the Society, may 
be suspended or expelled from the Society. But no member 
shall be expelled or suspended unless written charges be 
presented against such member to the Council. 

The Council shall give reasonable notice of such charges, 
and afford such member reasonable opportunity to be heard 
and refute the same. The Council, after hearing such 
charges, may recommend to the Society the expulsion or 
suspension of such member, and if the recommendation of 
the Council be adopted by a majority vote of the members 
of the Society present at such Court, he shall be so expelled 
or suspended, and the insignia of said member shall there- 
upon be returned to the Treasurer of the Society, and his 
rights therein shall be extinguished or suspended. 

SECTION XIX. 
Courts. 

The General Court of the Society shall be held on the 
anniversary of the capture of Louisburg, June 17, 1745. 

Special Courts may be called by the Governor at such 
times as in his opinion the interests of the Society may 
demand, and must be called by the Secretary on the written 
request of five members. All notices of meetings shall be 
sent out at least six days before the date of the meeting. 

At all meetings five members shall be necessary to con- 
stitute a quorum. 

At each Court of the Society, General or Special, im- 
mediately after the presiding officer shall have taken the 
chair, the minutes of the previous meeting shall be read by 



IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 19 

the Secretary, and passed upon by the Society; the next 
business in order shall be reports of officers and committees ; 
then new business. 

SECTION XX. 

Service of Notice. 

It shall be the duty of every member to inform the 
Secretary by written communication of his place of resi- 
dence and of any change thereof, and of his post-office 
address. Service of any notice, under the Constitution or 
By-Laws, on any member, addressed to his last residence or 
post-office address, forwarded by mail, shall be efficient 
service of notice. 

SECTION XXI. 

Certificate of Membership. 

Members may receive a certificate of membership, which 
shall be signed by the Governor, Secretary, and Registrar. 

SECTION XXIL 

Alteration or Amendment. 

No alteration or amendment of the By-Laws shall be 
made unless notice shall have been duly given in writing, 
signed by the member proposing the same, at a Court of the 
Society. 

The Secretary shall send a printed copy of the proposed 
amendment to the members of the Society, and state the 
Court at which the same will be voted upon. No amend- 
ment or alteration shall be made unless adopted by a two- 
thirds vote of the members present at the Court voting 
upon the same. 



20 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

SECTION XXIII. 

Election of Officers. 

The officers, members of the Council, and Committee on 
Membership, shall be elected at the General Court by ballot. 
A plurality of the votes cast for each officer shall determine 
a choice thereof, and said officers, members of the Council, 
and Committee on Membership, shall hold office for the 
period of one year, or until their successors shall be duly 
elected and qualified. 

SECTION XXIV. 

Delegates to the General Society. 

There shall be chosen at every annual meeting five dele- 
gates and five alternates to the General Society. 

SECTION XXV. 
Flag. 

The flag shall consist of the red cross of Saint George 
bearing in the centre the Seal of the Society of Colonial 
Wars in the State of New Hampshire. 

SECTION XXVI. 
Seal. 

The Seal shall be : In the centre the Seal of the Province 
of New Hampshire as authorized by William III. and Mary 
II. — The shield of Great Britain as it existed in 1692. — 
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, France and England ; 2d, or, a lion 
ramp, within a double tressure flory counter-flory, gu., for 
Scotland ; 3d, az., a harp or, stringed ar., for Ireland ; with 




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JN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 21 

an escutcheon of pretense, thereon the arms of Nassau, az. 
billetty, or, a lion ramp, gold — surrounded by the Garter 
and crested by the Royal Crowns. Without the shield ; 
upon either side, the monogram of William and Mary and 
two capital letters, R, entwined ; beneath, the Royal Motto 
"Dieu et mon Droit"; the whole within the title scroll 
' ' SiG : PrOVIN : N 'r^ : Nov^ : HamPTON : IN : NoV : Anglia, ' ' 
and this again encircled by a second title scroll bearing 
the words Society of Colonial Wars in the State op 
New Hampshire. 



22 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

Past Deputy Governor-Generals. 

Henry Oakes Kent, 

Lancaster. 

Charles Lathrop Parsons, 

Durham. 

Present Deputy governor-General. 

John Calvin Thorne, 
Concord, 

Past Governors. 

Henry Oakes Kent, 

Lancaster, 

1894-1900. 

Elisha Rhodes Brown, 

Dover, 

1900-1901. 

Frank West Rollins, 

Concord, 

1901-1903. 

John Calvin Thorne, 

Concord, 

1903-1906. 

Charles Henry Fish, 

Dover, 

1906-1908. 

Henry Moore Baker, 

Bow, 

1908-1912. 

Present Governor. 

Justin Harvey Smith, 

Boston, 

1912 




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OFFICERS AND MEMBERS 

OF THE 

SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

IN THE 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

1913—1914. 



OFFICERS. 
Governor, Justin Harvey Smith. 

Deputy Governor-General. 

(General Society.) 

John Calvin Thorne. 

Deputy Governor, Arthur Gilman Whittemore. 

Lieutenant Governor, James Albert Wellman. 

Secretary-Treasurer, John Calvin Thorne, Concord, 

Chaplain, Rev. Jesse Murton Durrell, 

Historian, John Scales. 

Registrar and Genealogist, Irving Allison Watson. 

Chancellor, William Dickinson Griswold Smith. 

Auditor, Granville Priest Conn. 

Gentlemen of the Council : 

Fred Winslow Morse. 
Jared Irving Williams, John Calvin Thorne, 

Harold Winthrop Brown, Daniel Clark Remich, 



24 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

Committee on Preservation of Records : 

Frank "West Rollins, Charles Henry Greenleaf, 

Harry Wilbur Gilchrist. 

Committee on Membership: 

Irving Allison Watson, Dwight Hall, 

Jesse Murton Durrell, George Oscar Ball, 

Lucius Waterman. 

Delegates to General Assembly, 1915 : 

Dwight Hall, George Bridge Leighton, 

William Hamilton Foster, Charles Henry Fish, 

Rosecrans William Pillsbury, Harry Bouton Cilley, 

Giles Wheeler, Joseph Foster. 

PRESENT MEMBERSHIP. 

Ball, George Oscar, Claremont. 
*Bangs, Charles McClary, Eliot, Maine. 
Banning, Kendall, New York. 
Batchelder, Nathaniel Hayward, Keene. 
Beatty, William Thomason, Boston, Mass. 
Bissell, Leslie Dayton, Munich, Germany. 
Brown, Elisha Rhodes, Dover. 
Brown, Harold Winthrop, Dover. 
Cilley, Harry Bouton, Manchester. 
Coit, James Milnor, Munich, Germany. 
Conn, Granville Priest, Concord. 
Durrell, Jesse Murton, Tilton. 
Eastman, Samuel Coffin, Concord. 
Edgerly, Edwin Lorraine, New York, N. Y. 
Fish, Charles Henry, Boston, Mass. 



• Charter member, 1894. 



IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 25 

Fletcher, George Moore, Concord. 

Flint, Wymau Kneeland, Antrim. 

Folsom, William Howard, Exeter. 

Forbes, Harry Kogers, New York, N. Y. 

Foster, Joseph, Portsmouth. 

Foster, William Hamilton, Concord. 

Gilchrist, Donald Bean, Franklin. 

Gilchrist, Harry Wilbur, Franklin. 

Gilman, Daniel, Exeter. 

Goodwin, Arthur Franklin, Boston, Mass. 

Greenleaf, Charles Henry, Franconia. 

Hall, Dwight, Dover. 

Hill, Howard Fremont, Concord. 

Jones, William Northey, Williamsport, Pa. 

Knowlton, John Greenleaf Whittier, Exeter. 

Leighton, George Bridge, Monadnock. 

Morse, Fred Winslow, Amherst, Mass. 

Pillsbury, Roseerans William, Londonderry. 

Plant, Morton Freeman, New York, N. Y. 

Remich, Daniel Clark, Littleton. 

Rollins, Frank West, Concord. 

Scales, John, Dover. 

Smith, Forrest Starr, Brookline, Mass. 

Smith, Joshua Ballard, Durham. 

Smith, Justin Harvey, Boston, Mass. 

Smith, William Dickinson Griswold, Castleton, Vt. 

Thorne, John Calvin, Concord. 

Tilton, George Henry, Laeonia. 

Waterman, Lucius, Hanover. 

Watson, Irving Allison, Concord. 

Wellman, James Albert, Manchester, 

Wheeler, Giles, Concord. 

Whittemore, Arthur Gilman, Dover, 

Williams, Jared Irving, Lancaster, 



Chronicle of the Society's General Courts 
For Twenty Years. 



1894-1914. 



1894. The Society was organized at Concord September 
27, incorporated September 28, and chartered by 
the General Society November 12. 

The first General Court was held December 11, 
at the Library of the New Hampshire Historical 
Society, Concord. 

1895. The second General Court was held September 12, 
in the Senate chamber of the State Capitol, Con- 
cord. It was voted — That the Society publish a 
volume containing the proceedings up to and in- 
cluding the third Annual Court of June 17, 1896, 

1896. The third General or Annual Court was held at 
the Senate chamber, June 17, the anniversary of 
the capture of Louisburg, Cape Breton, by the 
English and Colonial soldiers in 1745. The address 
of the occasion, written by Hon. Ezra Scollay 
Stearns, in his absence was read by the Governor, 
Hon. Henry Oakes Kent, the subject, "Governor 
John Wentworth." 

1897. The fourth General Court was held June 15, at the 
Rockingham, Portsmouth. The day was observed 
as a Field Day also, visits being made to numerous 
historic points about the city. A paper, "In Me- 
moriam," of Frank Arthur Colby, M. D., of Berlin, 




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IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 27 

N. H., was presented by Governor Kent. The ad- 
dress of the day was by Capt. George Augustus 
Gordon, Archivest — "The English and the Indians 
in New Hampshire." A Special Court was held 
at the Rockingham, Portsmouth, September 15, 
when the Constitution and By-Laws of the Society 
were read and adopted. This was printed to- 
gether with the papers presented at the General 
Court in the State Register of 1897. 

1898. The fifth General Court and Field Day was held 
June 17, at Dover. Carriages conveyed the mem- 
bers to the sites of the most important garrisons, 
and other points of interest. The meeting was held 
in the reception room of the City Hall. Dinner 
was served in the banquet hall, followed by a 
business meeting with the election of officers. A 
paper — In Memoriam — written by Captain Gordon 
in honor of Hon. John Sheldon Treat, was read 
and entered upon the records. 

1899. The sixth General Court and Field Day was held 
June 20, at The Weirs, Lake Winnipesaukee. En- 
dicott Rock, marking the northern limits claimed 
by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was the especial 
object of interest. Several addresses were given, 
the principal one by Hon. Joseph B. Walker, en- 
titled ' ' Endicott Rock. ' ' Afterwards a trolley ride 
was made to Laconia, where a reception was ten- 
dered to the party by Ex-Governor Charles Albert 
Busiel and Mrs. Busiel at their home. 

1900. The seventh General Court and Field Day was held 
June 13, at Durham. The Field Dav was held 



28 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

jointly with the Society of Colonial Dames. Visits 
were made to the well preserved Drew garrison, 
sites of other celebrated garrisons and to the 
homestead of General John Sullivan. The annual 
meeting was held at Thompson Hall of the New 
Hampshire College. At this meeting the first 
steps were taken toward erecting a memorial at 
Fort William and Mary. 

1901. The eighth General Court was held July 3, at the 
Manchester House, Manchester. The address was 
by Hon. Charles R. Corning on "Colonel John Fen- 
ton." Lunch at the Derryfield Club. The Society 
paid a visit to the grave of General John Stark. 
Resolutions in memory of Hon. Person Colby Cheney 
were offered by the Secretary, adopted and spread 
upon the records. 

1902. The ninth General Court was held July 10, at the 
Passaconaway Club house on the banks of the 
Merrimack River at Concord. Address of the day 
by William P. Whitcher, Esq., Woodsville, sub- 
ject, ''Col. John Hurd, of Haverhill." Committee 
appointed on tablet at Fort William and Mary — 
John Calvin Thorne, Hon. Frank West Rollins, 
Charles Henry Fish and James Louis Harris. A 
Council meeting was held December 6 in the 
directors' room of the Mechanicks National Bank, 
Concord. Memoirs of Rev. Charles Langdon Tap- 
pan and Ex-Gov. Charles Albert Busiel, prepared 
by the former Secretary, Rev. Howard Fremont 
Hill, were read and approved. John Calvin 
Thorne, chairman of the Committee on the tablet 
for Fort William and Mary, submitted a photo- 




HIS BOULDER FROM THE HILL-SIDE 

IS SET HERE BY 

GITirtNS OF CHARLESTOWn 

WITH THE CO-OPERATION OFTRE 

UNION HISTORICAL SOCIETY OS 

CHARLESTOVi^N. N.tt, 

ANC 

SPmNGFlELD. VT. 

AND OF THE 

SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

I TO MARK THE SITE OF THE 

OLD FORT. BUILT IN J 743. 



DEDICATED. AUGUST 30.1904. 

BEING THE I5"D^ ANNIVERSARY 

OF THE INDIAN' RAID. 




JUron^c tablet 

Cbarlestoton, Jieto J^ampsfjire 

^ite of olb " iSumber jFour " Jfort of tf)t jf rtnttj aiib Jtnbian ISaars 
Jguilt in 1743. Bcbitateb August 30, 1904 



IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 29 

graph of the same, which met with the commenda- 
tion of the members, and its dedication was voted 
to be observed at the next General Court. 

1903. The tenth General Court and Field Day was held 
June 17, at Portsmouth. A bronze tablet com- 
memorating the attack and capture of munitions 
of war at Fort William and Mary, by citizens of 
the New Hampshire Colony, December 14-15, 1774 
(six months before the battle at Concord and Lex- 
ington), was dedicated at Fort Constitution, New- 
castle. Appropriate exercises were held at the 
fort, in the presence of the garrison of the post, 
officers of the navy yard, members of the Society 
of Colonial Dames and other friends of the Society. 
The annual meeting was held in the colonial 
parlor at the Rockingham Hotel. (A copy of tliis 
tablet is given in this volume.) 

1904. The eleventh General Court was held June 17, in 
the Senate chamber of the State Capitol, at Con- 
cord. It was voted that the financial year of the 
Society extend from June 17 to June 17 of the fol- 
lowing year. In the afternoon the members and 
their guests, on invitation of Dr. James Milnor 
Coit, visited St. Paul's School and were enter- 
tained at an informal tea at his house. The Soci- 
ety was invited to the Old Home Day celebration 
at Charlestown, N. H., on August 30, and to assist 
in the dedication of a tablet to mark the site of 
the old Fort "Number Four" of the French and 
Indian wars. The invitation was accepted. The 
occasion was a brilliant one, a large concourse of 
people gathered and a fine program was carried 



30 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

out. Hon. John C. Linehan gave the oration upon 
''New Hampshire in the Twentieth Century." 

(A picture of the boulder and tablet is inserted 
in this book.) 

1905. The twelfth General Court and Field Day was 
held July 12, at Star Island, Isles of Shoals. Pre- 
vious to boarding the steamer the members were 
conveyed to the Point of Graves, when a visit 
was paid to the Vaughan Tomb. The annual 
meeting was held in the parlor of the Oceanic 
House, and it was voted to repair the Vaughan 
Tomb by renewing the broken marble slab, com- 
memorating Lieut.-Col. William Vaughan, who 
was the originator of and participant in the expe- 
dition which captured the strong fortifications of 
Louisburg from the French, June 17, 1745. 

(This marble tablet is reproduced in half-tone in 
this book.) 

A Council meeting was held at the Strafford 
Bank, Dover, May 10. It was voted to hold the 
next annual court at Exeter. 

The sum of $100 was voted to assist the East- 
man Family Association in the erection of a 
memorial to Captain Ebenezer Eastman, at East 
Concord. He was one of the first settlers of Con- 
cord and went twice in an expedition to Louis- 
burg, 1745-6. 

1906. The thirteenth General Court and Field Day was 
held June 15, at Exeter. The party visited the 
colonial manor of the Society of Colonial Dames, 
after which carriages conveyed the party to the 
principal points of interest, and finally to the old 



i^tre Ipctf) 

tlje ^obp of 

llieut.CoI. 

SSaiUiam "^Jaugfjan. 

€>riginator 

anb 
participant 

of tf)C 

Cxpcbition 

toi)icl) Capturrb 

ILouisfaurg 

1745 

l^oiitt of #iabes, 

^ortsimoutfj, 
i^eU) J^ampsifjirc 




ilirofeen 

tablet 

replacrb 

toitf) 

original 

inscription 

bp tbe 

^ocietp 

of 

Colonial TOars 

in tfje 

^tatc 

of 

i^etn J^ampsijirc, 

1906 



IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SI 

Gilman mansion, once the capitol of the colony 
and now the home of the Nev/ Hampshire Society 
of the Cincinnati. Here a reception was given by 
the Cincinnati and an opportunity to inspect the 
historical treasures on exhibition. Later the Soci- 
ety of Colonial Wars entertained the members of 
the other societies at its annual dinner, which was 
held at the Farragut House, Rye Beach, to which 
the entire company was transported in a special 
trolley car. 

1907. The fourteenth General Court and Field Day was 
held July 2, at Hotel Wentworth, Newcastle, N. H, 

The annual meeting for the election of officers 
and the transaction of business was held on arrival. 

Through the courtesy of Mr. John T. Coolidge, 
owner of the colonial Governor Wentworth es- 
tate, the party visited this interesting and his- 
toric mansion. 

The annual dinner was served at the hotel, at 
which Governor Fish and others made brief 
speeches. 

1908. The fifteenth General Court convened at the 
Derryfield Club house, Manchester, September 11, 
for the election of officers, the hearing of reports 
and the transaction of business. At 12 o 'clock the 
Society and guests proceeded to the Riverside 
Inn, Hooksett, N. H., for the banquet of the day. 
Short speeches were given upon the work of the 
Society by Governor Fish, Governor-elect Baker, 
Historian Walker and Mr. Pillsbury. Afterwards 
further business was transacted authorizing the 
erection of a monument in the Old North Ceme- 



32 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

tery, Concord, in memory of three men massacred 
by the Indians, August 11, 1746. 

1909, The sixteenth Annual Court met June 17, at Con- 
cord, and was adjourned to meet September 2, 
at Riverside Inn, Hooksett. The Governor, Secre- 
tary and Treasurer were appointed a committee 
of arrangements. 

The adjourned General Court was held Sep- 
tember 2, at Riverside Inn, Hooksett. After the 
election of officers and listening to reports, the 
Committee on the Headstone in Old North Cemetery 
reported and presented a photograph of their work 
which was unanimously accepted. Historian 
Walker presented memoirs of George Frederick Ev- 
ans, Portland, Maine, and Henry Oakes Kent, Lan- 
caster, deceased members. The same was later 
published in the New Hampshire Historical and 
Genealogical Records, Dover, N. H., with their 
portraits. At the conclusion of the business of 
the day. Governor Baker delivered an address 
on "The First Seige of Louisburg, 1745." The 
paper was particularly interesting and was sub- 
sequently published in the Granite Monthly. The 
meeting formally adjourned at one o'clock, when the 
members and guests sat down to the annual ban- 
quet in the dining-room of the inn. 

1910. The seventeenth General Court was held at the 
State House (Committee Hall), Concord, October 
27. After the opening exercises and the presenta- 
tion of reports, the Historian, Joseph Burbeen 
Walker, read a paper in memoriam of Henry Rust 
Parker, M. D., of Dover, N. H., which was after- 



IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 33 

ward printed in the New Hampshire Genealogical 
Register, Dover, N. H., with his portrait. Resolu- 
tions were passed in appreciation of Capt. George 
Augustus Gordon's faithful service as Genealogist 
for many years, his declination of re-election being 
presented on account of advanced age and feeble 
health. 

Following the election of officers. Col. George 
Bridge Leighton delivered an address on "The 
Responsibilities and Duties of the Individual in 
our Democracy." This paper was highly com- 
mended and a copy requested for preservation. On 
adjournment the members proceeded to the Eagle 
Hotel for their annual dinner. 

1911. The eighteenth General Court was also held at 
Committee Hall, in the State House, at Concord, 
September 21. A resolution was submitted by John 
Calvin Thorne and unanimously adopted : That 
the Hon. Joseph Burbeen Walker, our Historian, 
be invited to prepare a paper upon "Concord in 
the Colonial Days — especially the year of the 
Indian Massacre, 1746," to be delivered before 
the Society at some future meeting. After the 
election of officers, the Rev. Jesse Murton Durrell 
delivered a most valuable and interesting address 
upon, "The Supremacy of Popular Liberty in 
Colonial Days." A copy was requested for publi- 
cation. Joseph Burbeen Walker, Historian, read 
biographical sketches of the recently deceased 
members — Hiram Americus Tuttle, of Pittsfield; 
Edson Cummings Eastman, and Henry Estes Con- 
ant, of Concord. It was voted that arrangements 
be made for publishing these papers. 



34 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

1912. A special meeting of the Council was held at 
Concord, March 15. The Governor announced the 
death of the Treasurer, James Minot, of Concord, 
November 15, 1911. 

Resolutions in memoriam were passed by the 
Society, Irving Allison "Watson was elected to fill 
the vacancy. 

The nineteenth General Court was held at the 
State House, Concord, June 17. Delegates to the 
General Assembly, Messrs. Thorne and Leighton, 
at Providence, R. I., made their report. Owing 
to the decease of Governor Henry Moore Baker, 
May 30, 1912, John Calvin Thorne, Ex-Governor 
of the State Society, was chosen Deputy Governor- 
General of the National Society. 

Adjourned Annual Court was held at the State 
House, Concord, October 7. After the transaction 
of business, as recorded by the Secretary, Hon. 
James 0. Lyford, Naval Officer of Customs, Boston, 
a native and resident of New Hampshire, presented 
the address of the day — subject, "Our Govern- 
ment — The Evolution of Colonial Experience." 
This paper appears in full in this volume. 

1913. The twentieth General Court and Field Day was 
held September 9, at Hilton Hall, Dover Point, 
N. H., Governor Smith presiding. Reports pre- 
sented and accepted. 

Rear Admiral Joseph Foster, of Portsmouth, 
introduced interesting remarks as to the Liberty 
Pole Association of his city and financial aid was 
voted to perpetuate in view of the people this 
colonial and patriotic enterprise of 1766. Deputy 
Governor-General Thorne stated that probably the 




^regent conbition of Captain HTofjn g)mitf) ifWonumeiit. ^tar SslanU, Sslcs of ^fjoals 

(Crrttelr 1864. Ss propogeb to rtncto it tfjis pcar bp our ^otietp, bring tlje 

300tf) annibersarp of tfjr lanbing of Capt. femitlj in 1614 



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CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH , 

1579 - 1631 

' AFTER PROVING HIS VALOR IN 
' EUROPE AND AMERICA BECAME 

GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA 

AND 

ADMIRAL OF NEW ENGLAND 

WHILE EXPLORING THIS COAST IN THE 

SPRING OF 1614 MADE THE FIRST RECORDED 

VISIT TO THESE ISLANDS. NAMED BY HIM 

SMITH'S ISLES 



THIS TABLET IS PLACED 
THREE HUNDRED YEARS LATER BY THE 

SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 
IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 
'■ • 1914 • 



h^=^f!^mm% 



Cap ^tone anb Jgron^e ^Tablet of tlje Captain SJofjn 
^mitlj itlonument, ^tar 3lglanb == Ssiles of ^1)oals(. 



placet! bv tlje feotietp of Colonial ©Hars in tlje g>tatt of ^eto ?&amp 
sfjirf anb Betiicatcb bv tfjrm bjitfj inttresiting txtrtiSfS anb a fine fjistorital 
abbress on Captain 3lo\]n ^mittj. bv tbt (^otocrnor of tfte ^ocittp. fustm 
i^arbtp ^mitf), IL. Ti. IB., on STuIp 29. 1914.— ^ublisbcb in tijt Prottebings 
of tfje ©ap bp ttje ^tto Ikyamp&birt l^istorical ^ocietp. 



IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 35 

next Field Day of the Society would be held at Star 
Island, Isles of Shoals, in 1914, the 300th anni- 
versary of the landing of Captain John Smith, and 
to there dedicate a monument to the memory of 
this famous Colonial Captain. The Committee of 
Arrangements appointed were John Calvin 
Thorne, Concord; Elisha Rhodes Brown, Dover; 
Joseph Foster, Portsmouth; Daniel Oilman, Ex- 
eter; Justin Harvey Smith, Boston. After a boun- 
tiful dinner came the election of officers, followed 
by the historical address of the day by John 
Scales, Esq., of Dover, on "The First Permanent 
Settlement in New Hampshire — 1623. ' ' This valu- 
able paper, with the proceedings of the Court, 
were published the following day in the principal 
Dover newspaper, the Dover Democrat. A visit of 
the members and their ladies in automobiles to 
several historic points of interest ended a most 
delightful day. 



M jMemoriam 

1910—1914. 

Jliram aimericujs atuttle, 

PiTTSFIELD, N. H. 

<Ex-Governor of New Hampshire. Born October 13, 1827. 
Died February 10, 1911.) 

Cbgon Cumminss! CasJtman, 

Concord, N. H. 

(Registrar of this Society. Born November 9, 1832. 

Died March 9, 1911.) 

Ilenrp Cs^tes; Conant, 

Concord, N, H. 
(Born May 24, 1843. Died July 20, 1911.) 

3fame£{ jHinot, 

Concord, N. H. 

(Treasurer of this Society. Born April 12, 1843. 

Died November 15, 1911.) 

(george giugus^tuss #orbon, 

SOMERVILLE, MASS. 

(Genealogist of this Society. Born July 17, 1827. 
Died May 3, 1912.) 

J|enrj> iWoore ^iafeer, 

Bow, N. H. 

(Governor of this Society. Born January 11, 1841. 

Died May 30, 1912.) 

Jo^epf) ^urbeen OTialker, 

Concord, N. H. 

(Historian of this Society. Born June 2, 1822. 

Died January 9, 1913.) 

abolpfjusi Skinner ?|ul3batti, 

San Francisco, Cal. 
(Born July 7, 1838. Died January 29, 1913.) 

Cftarlesi Jfranfe pitman, 

Laconia, N. H. 
(Born October 6, 1847. Died May 15, 1913.) 




J^iram ^mericus; Shuttle 

Pittsfielb, iS. 1^. 

JBorn ©ctobcr 13. 1827 
SBifb Jffbruarp 10. 1911 



^on. Hiram Smericug Cuttle. 



Hiram Americus Tuttle was of good old Anglo-Ameri- 
can stock. He was the son of George and Judith Mason 
(Davis) Tuttle, and was born in the ancient town of 
Barnstead, in the section called the Centre, on the 
thirteenth day of October, 1827. 

His family removed to Pittsfield when he was nine 
years old, and in its common schools and at the Pittsfield 
Academy he received a plain education. This proved an 
important addition to a native mental ability above the 
average, which was accompanied by courage, integrity, 
kindness of disposition, good judgment and enterprise. To 
this happy combination of mental and moral qualities must 
be attributed a large measure of his eminent success. 

He entered upon his business career in 1844, as a clerk 
in the clothing store of Lincoln & Shaw, in Concord, 
where he remained for several years, at the expiration of 
which he was sent by his employers to take charge of a 
branch store of like character wliich they had established 
in Pittsfield. This he subsequently purchased, and either 
alone or with one or more partners managed for many 
years. To the business of this store, he added, in 1888, 
an extensive trade in lumber, from the profits of which 
his ample estate was largely derived. 

But Mr. Tuttle did not restrict his activities to his pri- 
vate interests. He was in sympathy with all things that 
were best in his town and state, and a liberal contributor 
of his time and means to their promotion. To the busi- 
ness structures of Pittsfield, he added a large and hand- 
some block, and to its dwelling houses, an attractive resi- 



40 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

dence for the occupancy of himself and family. He also 
erected and presented to the town a handsome school- 
house. He was an efficient friend of the Pittsfield Aque- 
duct Company, and a trustee of the Pittsfield Academy. 
He was also a director of the Pittsfield National Bank, the 
president of the Pittsfield Savings Bank, and also of the 
Manchester Savings Bank — one of the largest institutions 
of this kind in the state. 

In politics, he was a Republican, and one is not sur- 
prised to learn that his party sought his services and 
honored him by repeated elections to important offices 
of town and state. In 1860 he was chosen town clerk of 
Pittsfield, an office which had been held by persons of the 
opposing party back to a time almost immemorial. In 
1873 and 1874 his townsmen sent him as one of their 
representatives to the General Court of the state. Two 
years later, Governor Cheney made him a member of his 
staff. In 1878 and 1879 he was elected a member of the 
Governor's Council by the voters of the Second Councilor 
District, and in 1891 and 1892 was elevated to the posi- 
tion of Governor of the State. 

While never a member of any church, he was for many 
years an attendant upon the services of the Congrega- 
tional Church, and later upon those of the Episcopalian. 

Governor Tuttle was married in 1859 to Miss Mary C. 
French, only daughter of Mr. John L. French, of Pitts- 
field, a lady of highest character. He died on the tenth 
day of February, 1911. From 1844, when he entered upon 
his business career, down to the time of his decease, his 
life was one of continuous usefulness to his fellow men. 

J. B. W. 




Cbsion Cummings €astman 

Concorb, iS. i^. 

JSorn JJobembtr 9, 1832 
JBifb iWarcb 9. 19U 



€bs(on Cummings! Casitman. 



Mr. Edson Cummings Eastman, a valued member of 
the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hamp- 
shire, died at his residence in Concord on the ninth day 
of March, 1911. In his veins commingled the blood of 
two of the foremost original proprietors of the Planta- 
tion of Penny-Cook — Capt. Ebenezer Eastman and Rev. 
Enoch Coffin. The former was his great-great-grand- 
father on his father's side, and the latter his great-great- 
granduncle on the side of his mother. 

Capt. Ebenezer Eastman came up from Haverhill, Mass., 
in May, 1726, with the supervising committee and sur- 
veyors sent by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay, 
to lay out this plantation. During this year, he made 
temporary accommodations for his family, the first to 
move into the new settlement, consisting of his wife, six 
stalwart sons and his hired men; also his team of six 
yoke of oxen. Dr. Bouton, in his History of Concord, 
calls him **the strong man" of the community. He 
possessed, in large measure, intelligence, courage, good 
judgment, and the public confidence. He had been a 
soldier in the Canada Expedition of 1711, and forty odd 
years later he served in the two campaigns of 1745 and 
1746 at the siege and capture of Louisburg. 

The Rev. Enoch Coffin, of Newbury, Mass., accom- 
panied the committee and surveyors, as chaplain, and 
conducted on Sunday, the fifteenth day of May, 1726, the 
first religious meeting ever held in the Penny-Cook plan- 
tation (now Concord, N. H.). As an original proprietor 
and a minister he was ** employed to preach and perform 



42 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

divine service," dying two years later, August 7, 1728, 
at the early age of thirty-twa years. His name is to be 
cherished as Concord's first preacher. He was subse- 
quently represented by his nephew, William Coffin, who 
lived on the ancient Coffin homestead, where he died on 
the eighteenth day of October, 1815. 

Edson Cummings Eastman, born in Concord on the 
ninth day of November, 1832, was the son of Capt. Seth 
and Sarah (Coffin) Eastman. His father was for a long 
period a well and favorably known member of the busi- 
ness circle of Concord, who devoted the latter part of his 
life to that of insurance and was the founder of the 
present firm of Eastman & Merrill. 

Edson Cummings Eastman was educated in the schools 
of his native town and at Gilmanton Academy. At the 
beginning of his business career he was, for a time, a 
clerk in the railroad office of Hon. Joseph A. Gilmore, 
and subsequently was a partner with Silas G. Sylvester 
in the crockery business. From this he retired some fifty 
odd years ago, and became a publisher, bookseller and 
stationer, an occupation in which he ever afterwards 
continued. 

Among his earlier publications was Eastman's White 
Mountain Guide; the New Hampshire Register of 1866 
and 1867, and the first volume of Hitchcock's Geological 
Survey of New Hampshire, 1871. Upon the death of Mr. 
Gardner P. Lyon, who had been for some years the pub- 
lisher of most of the law books issued in New Hamp- 
shire, this business naturally gravitated to Mr. East- 
man and brought him an extensive acquaintance with 
the members of the New Hampshire Bar. For fifty- 
one years he was the proprietor and publisher of Leavitt's 
Farmer's Almanac, a work which, first issued in 1796, has 
probably had a greater circulation in this state than any 



IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 43 

book except the Bible. Its title page bears his imprint 
every year from 1860 down to 1911. 

Simultaneously with his business as a publisher he also 
conducted that of a bookseller and stationer, and, at the 
time of his decease, his stock in trade on these lines was the 
most extensive of any in Concord. 

But Mr. Eastman found time for the promotion of 
interests outside those of his regular business. In re- 
ligion he was a Baptist, and a member of the First Baptist 
Church and Society in Concord. In politics he was a 
Democrat. He possessed historical tastes and was a 
member of the New Hampshire Historical Society and 
of the Eastman Family Association. 

As a citizen, he was ever loyal to his city's highest 
welfare. He was patriotic as well, and a member of the 
Sons of the American Revolution, and for the last fifteen 
years a member of the Society of Colonial Wars in the 
State of New Hampshire, and for several years held the 
office of Registrar. He was, moreover, a gentleman, 
easily accessible, of kindly disposition, and took as much 
pleasure in conferring a favor as the recipient did in 
receiving it. 

Mr. Eastman was twice married, the first time to Miss 
Mary E. Robinson, daughter of Mr. Cyrus Robinson, of East 
Concord, who died in 1882; and a second time to Miss 
Mary Whittemore, who survives him. He is also survived 
by a daughter of the former, Mrs. Mary Isabel Styll, of 
Oklahoma City, Okla. 

J. B. W. 



?|enrp CsitejJ Conant. 



Henry Estes Conant, tenth in descent from Roger Con- 
ant, an early (1623) settler of Massachusetts, was born 
in Barre, Mass., on the 24th of May, 1843. He was edu- 
cated in the schools of his native towm and of Spring- 
field and Norwich. 

At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in Com- 
pany K of the 21st Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, 
and served continuously from July, 1861, to July 12, 1865, 
when he was mustered out. 

In 1874 he came to Concord and ere long established 
a laundry, in which occupation he continued until, a few 
years before his death, he was constrained by ill health 
to relinquish it. It was carried on with an intelligent 
industry and honesty which brought him success and the 
reputation of an honorable business man. 

While thus engaged, he also found time for useful 
service in some of the patriotic and benevolent institu- 
tions of his adopted city. Not long after his advent, he 
joined the E. E, Sturtevant Post, No. 2, of the Grand 
Army of the Republic, and thus did good service for a 
time as Department Commander in New Hampshire. He 
also became a Mason and a member of various fraternal 
organizations, in which he manifested his interest in their 
different efforts by lending his hand for their promotion. 

In 1894 he was elected to its membership by the Society 
of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hampshire, and his 
name stands on its rolls as number 78. He was also a 
member of the General Society, upon whose rolls it stands 




J^tnvp Cstes! Conant 

Contorli, iS. 1^. 

JBorn iHap 24, 1843 
SBieti ^obember 15. 1911 



IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 45 

as number 1,297, Fidelity to the highest interests of 
these organizations also characterized his membership. 

He died at his home in Concord, of which he had been 
a valued and respected citizen for the previous thirty- 
two years, on the 20th of July, 1911, survived by his wife 
and one daughter, A few days later his remains w-ere 
laid to an honorable repose in Blossom Hill Cemetery 
by his friends and comrades, beneath the flag to which 
his loyalty had ever been unbounded and undoubted. 

J. B. W. 



IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 47 

and on the staffs of various commanders until 1897, when 
he was elected Commander of the Department of New 
Hampshire and filled the position with signal ability." 

He was an active member of the Sons of the American 
Revolution and joined the Society of Colonial Wars in 
the State of New Hampshire in 1899 and was elected its 
treasurer in 1904, an office which he held until his decease. 
He was a quiet, thoughtful man, possessed of much general 
intelligence and of strict integrity. He was a member 
of the South Congregational Church in Concord. His 
wife was Fanny E. Pickering, daughter of the late Dea- 
con Hazen Pickering, of this city, to whom he was mar- 
ried May 13, 1874, and who survives him. 

J. B. W. 



Capt (george ^ugusstusi (gottron. 



Capt. George Augustus Gordon, after a long and busy 
life, first as a civil engineer, and later as a genealogist 
and historian, died at his residence in Somerville, Mass., 
on the 3d day of May, 1912, at the mature age of almost 
eighty-five years. He vv^as of Scotch descent, and the 
son of Ebenezer and Sophronia (Anderson) Gordon. He 
was born in Dover, N. H., on the 17th of July, 1827, and 
was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1846. After- 
wards he was for a time a civil engineer and assisted in 
the erection of the Atlantic Cotton Mills, at Lawrence, 
Mass., and later in building the Print Works at Man- 
chester, and of the mills at Lewiston, Me. He was en-^ 
gaged in work of this kind until 1854. The following 
year, he entered upon the newspaper business at Law- 
rence, in which he subsequently continued in Charleston, 
S. C. He was also for a time, while in the south, the 
supervising engineer of some gold mines at Dahlondega, 
in northern Georgia, and still later, in mines in North 
Carolina. 

Upon the breaking out of the Civil War he returned 
to the North and settled with his family at Lowell, Mass., 
having been married, October 16, 1857, to Miss Ann 
Farley Gordon, in Lawrence. In 1848 he removed to 
Somerville, where he continued to reside for the re- 
mainder of his life, devoted mainly to genealogical and 
historical work. In 1876 he became a member of the 
New England Historic Genealogical Society and was for 
seventeen years its Recording Secretary. He was also a 
member of the South Carolina Historical Society, the- 




(George Augustus (gorbon 

^omcrbiUt. idlass. 

IBorn Julp 17. 1827 
JSieb iHap 3, 1912 



IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 49 

Lowell Historical Society, the Somerville Historical 
Society, the Dover Historical Society, and of the His- 
torical Societies of Maine, New Hampshire and Wis- 
consin. He also became a member of this organization, 
the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hamp- 
shire, in 1895, and served for some ten years as its Gene- 
alogist. He was a prominent Mason and a member of 
several Masonic organizations. His religious affiliation 
was with the Episcopal Church. He left at his decease 
sons and daughters, 

J. B. W. 



(general ?|enrj> iHoore JJaker. 



Gen. Henry Moore Baker, the youngest son of Aaron 
W. and Nancy D. Baker, was born in Bow, N. H., on the 
eleventh of January, 1841. 

He received his early education in the schools of his 
native town and preparatory to entering college at the 
academies of the neighboring towns of Pembroke, Hop- 
kinton and Tilton, and was graduated at Dartmouth in 
1863. He chose for his profession that of the law, which 
he pursued for a time in Concord, and later, in Wash- 
ington, D. C, where, in 1866, he was admitted to practice 
in the District Courts, and six years later, in the Supreme 
Court of the United States. 

He was ever loyal to New Hampshire and its institu- 
tions, and, although during much of his life resident else- 
where, he ever retained his residence in his native town. 
To his alma mater his attachment was marked and rec- 
ognized by the members of its Alumni Association, of 
which he served for four years as President. 

Nor did he decline when called upon to serve his state 
and town. In 1891-1892 he represented the ninth district 
in the Senate of New Hampshire and in 1895-7, his town 
in the House of Representatives. He was also an active 
member of the New Hampshire Constitutional Conven- 
tion in 1902, and between 1902 and 1906 he represented 
his district in the National House of Representatives at 
Washington. 

General Baker possessed a marked literary taste, par- 
ticularly 8 ^ historical and patriotic lines, and was a 
valued and honored member of the New Hampshire His- 




J^tnvp Jtloore leaker 

iSotu. iS. ^. 

?8orn Januarp II. 1841 
IBifl) iWng 30, 1912 



IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 5 1 

torical Society, the Society of Sons of the American Revo- 
lution, and, at the time of his death, was the Governor of 
the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hamp- 
shire. 

The fact of General Baker being a relative of Mrs. 
Mary Baker Eddy naturally led her to avail herself of 
liis legal and business knowledge and to choose him as 
the executor of her will. To these facts is largely due 
the recent prominence of his name before the public in 
the legal controversies which have arisen in the settle- 
ment of her estate. 

In the course of his life the General accumulated a 
very considerable estate which he used with discreet liber- 
ality for the promotion of worthy objects. One of the 
last of these was the foundation of a library in his native 
town, accompanied by a gift of ten thousand dollars for 
its maintenance. 

General Baker's decease, which occurred at Washing- 
ton, after a brief illness, on the thirtieth day of May, 
1912, was as unexpected as it was sad. Up to this time, 
his natural vigor had but little abated, and his activity 
seemed likely to continue for some years to come. Those 
who knew him hardly suspected that he had attained 
the mature age of seventy-one years and some months. 
Indeed, most aptly descriptive of his sudden decease are 
the words of Baron Curier in relation to that of Count 
Rumford, 'L'avis de ses obseques, arrive presque en meme 
temps que la nouvelle de sa maladie. ' ' 

J. B. W. 



3|on. ^ogepfj purbeen OTalfeer. 



One of Concord's most honored and most valued cit- 
izens died at his ancestral home Wednesday afternoon, 
January 9, 1913, in the ninety-first year of his age. 

Mr. Walker was born in Concord, N. H., June 2, 1822, 
the son of Captain Timothy Walker and great-grandson 
of the first settled minister of Concord, who served as its 
only pastor from 1730 to 1782, the date of his death. 

Joseph Burbeen Walker was fitted for college at 
Phillips-Exeter Academy, graduated from Yale College 
in 1844, studied at the Harvard Law School and admitted 
to the New Hampshire bar in 1847, and opened an office 
in the former New Hampshire Historical Society's build- 
ing. In a few years he retired from the practice of law 
and assumed the active duties of the management of the 
interests of his large inherited farm, which came to him 
from his great-grandfather, one of the first settlers of the 
town. He was for many years President of the State 
Board of Agriculture ; a member of the Forestry Com- 
mission; and Trustee, also Secretary, of the New Hamp- 
shire Asylum for the Insane for sixty years, 1847-1907 ; 
Director of the Merrimack County Bank, 1845-1866 ; Presi- 
dent New Hampshire Savings Bank, 1865-1874; for some 
thirty years, from 1880, he was on the Board of Directors 
of the Mechanicks National Bank, also was a member of 
Concord's first Board of Education, serving for thirteen 
years. 

Mr. Walker was an active and valuable member of the 
New Hampshire Historical Society, joining in 1845, Li- 
brarian for the next five years. Recording Secretary 1849- 




f osiepij JSurtjeen OTalfeer 

ConcorD. M- 1^- 

JBorn func 2, 1822 
JBitb 3Januarp 9, 1913 



IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 53 

1853, Vice-President 1860-1866, President 1866-1868, mem- 
ber of the State Legislature 1866-1867, and member of 
the State Senate in 1893. A member and Vice-President 
from New Hampshire for sixteen years of the New Eng- 
land Historic Genealogical Society of Boston. Also an 
esteemed member and the Historian of our Society of 
Colonial Wars in the State of New Hampshire. 

Mr. "Walker was a strong and consistent member of 
the First Congregational Church in Concord for sixty-two 
years, from the date of his admission in 1851 until his 
decease. A regular attendant at the services where his 
great-grandfather was its first minister and who served 
his parish faithfully for fifty-two years. 

His position in the city was unique ; he was a connect- 
ing link in the chain which bound together the old and 
the new; he knew better than any other its first century 
of existence and lived long in its second ; he read, observed 
and wrote much of its early and later life. He had the 
genuine historic sense and enjoyed greatly the writings 
and the tradition of the olden time, while he was keenly 
alive to the thoughts and acts of the present and was 
prominent and helpful in all its affairs. His many pub- 
lished papers and pamphlets on many subjects were al- 
ways interesting and valuable. 

Hon. Joseph Burbeen Walker was for several years 
intimately connected with our Society of Colonial Wars 
and was its Historian at the time of his decease. He 
loved history and the patriotic work of the Society in 
preserving ancient records, in placing tablets and erect- 
ing monuments to perpetuate the noble deeds of our 
colonial ancestry. 

J. C. T. 



Colonel abolpfjus! ^feinner Jlubbarb. 



Born in Du Page County near Chicago, Illinois, July 7, 
1838; died at San Francisco, California, January 29, 1913. 

Colonel Hubbard's line of descent was as follows: 1. 
Edmond, 2. Thomas, 3. Caleb, 4. Benjamin, 5. Peter, Senior, 
6. Peter, Junior, 7. Theodore, Senior, 8. Theodore, Junior, 
9. Adolphus Skinner. He was in the eleventh genera- 
tion from Mary Chilton of the Mayflower, and ninth in 
descent from Edmond Hubbard, who came from Hing- 
ham, England, settled at Charlestow^n, Massachusetts, in 
1633, and moved to Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1635, be- 
ing thus the founder of the family in America ; and his 
ancestry includes also members of many well known 
families of early New England. 

Colonel Hubbard 's father was born in Putney, Vermont, 
October 19, 1803, but removed to Jordan, New York, and 
in 1836 went by boat with his wife to Chicago, where he 
arrived in May. From that time he lived in Chicago or 
the vicinity as a practising physician. He was also a 
county official of Du Page County and postmaster at 
Babcock's Grove, 1844. He died in Chicago, February 1, 
1872. His wife, Anne "Ward Ballon, daughter of Eben- 
ezer Ballou and Marana Ward, was of French Huguenot 
descent, the family having been established in America 
in 1710. She was born at Deerfield, New York, December 
29, 1809, and died at Chicago, September 5, 1895. 

Colonel Hubbard attended the public schools in Chicago 
until April 25, 1853, when he entered the telegraph service 
and qualified as an operator. This experience led to his 
becoming in later years a member of the Old Times 




^bolpljiis ;^kinner J^ufabarb 

^an jfrancisco. California 

JSorn Julp 7. 1838 
JBitli a^anuarp 29. 1913 



IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 55 

Telegraphers' and Historical Association. In 1860 he 
took up the express business. Leaving Chicago five years 
later he settled in New Mexico, where he was appointed 
Colonel on the staff of Governor Mitchell. At the close 
of the civil war he moved to California as quarter- 
master's clerk with the last detachment of California 
volunteers to be mustered out, riding on horseback from 
Santa Fe and arriving in* San Francisco, December 31, 
1866. There he went into the warehouse business and 
also was superintendent of a local express company. 
From 1880 to 1886 he was connected with the United 
States Mint of San Francisco, and for a number of years 
was Deputy County Clerk of that city. From 1886 to 
1888 he served as Deputy Superintendent of Streets at 
San Francisco. In 1893 he became the Clerk for the 
Dental Department of the University of California, which 
position he held until 1901. 

Outside of business he was equally active. In 1867 
he identified himself with St. Luke's Episcopal Church 
of San Francisco, being one of its lay founders, its first 
Clerk and the Superintendent of its Sunday School ; and 
he acted as Recording and Corresponding Secretary of 
the Young Men's Christian Association for some ten 
years. 

In our Centennial year, 1876, he helped organize the 
patriotic body known as the "Sons of the Revolutionary 
Sires," which became in 1889 the national organization 
of the Sons of the American Revolution. He was recog- 
nized as the founder of the California Society, S. A. R., 
served as President a number of years, and during the 
last twenty years of his life was its Registrar. He was 
one of the incorporators of the national Society, S. A. R., 
January 17, 1890. September 3, 1892, the California. 



56 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

Society, S. A. R., passed the following resolutions 
unanimously : 

First. That the Society places on record, that its ex- 
istence to-day is due to the zeal, untiring devotion, and 
unceasing labors of Past President, Colonel A. S. Hub- 
bard, who aided in its inception, and has almost single- 
handed brought the Society through trials and discourage- 
ments which beset all new societies to its present pros- 
perous condition ; therefore it recognizes him as the 
Founder of the California Society of the Sons of the 
American Revolution, and therefore the Founder of the 
Society at large. 

Second. That the National Society, S. A. R., is earnestly 
requested in its proceedings and publications to recognize 
Colonel A. S. Hubbard as the Founder of the California 
Society and therefore Founder of the Society at large, an 
honor which by his patriotic labors he has merited, and to 
which he is justly entitled. 

Third. That a copy of these resolutions, also a copy 
of said report as finally engrossed [the report of the 
committee appointed to investigate the history of the 
Society] be transmitted to General Horace Porter, Presi- 
dent General, also to the Secretary, with the request that 
they be incorporated in a supplementary form in the Pro- 
ceedings of the Third Annual Congress. 

Fourth. That the Honorable Lucius P. Deming, the 
Society's Delegate at Large, is respectfully requested to 
use his official and personal influence to bring the above 
properly before the National Society, and that he deposit 
a copy of the action of the Society taken this day in the 
National Archives. 

Finally, that in appreciation of the long-continued and 
valuable services rendered to the California Society by 
Past President Hubbard there be appropriated from its 
Treasury a sum sufficient to purchase a badge of the first 
class Avith the following words engraved thereon: "Pre- 
sented to Colonel A. S. Hubbard, Founder of the California 
Societv, S. A. R., by his Compatriots of the Society, July 
4, 1892." 



IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 57 

At the Louisville Congress of the S. A. R., May 1, 1890, 
in recognition of his services Colonel Hubbard was by 
resolution made a Past President General, and was 
awarded the credit of having been Founder of the Society. 

He married at San Francisco, February 29, 1872, Sarah 
Isabelle, daughter of John and Hannah Goodrich (Holt) 
Sylvester, who was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, 
and traced her ancestry to the prominent families of 
early New England. Mrs. Hubbard was the founder of 
the first Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revo- 
lution in California and on the Pacific coast, and was 
its Regent and Honorary State Regent. She was also a 
charter member of the National Society, D. A. R. She 
organized and was for ten years the President of the 
Valentine Holt Society, Children of the American Revo- 
lution. Like her husband, she was an influential and 
valued worker in St. Luke's Episcopal Church. She sur- 
vives her husband and now (1914) resides at San Fran- 
cisco. 

Colonel Hubbard left one son, Theodore Worthington 
Hubbard, born April 18, 1874, and now practising law at 
San Francisco, who kindly furnished the data upon w^hich 
this sketch is based. 

J. H. S. 



Cf)arlefiJ jFranfe pitman. 



Charles Frank Pitman died at his home in Laconia, 
May 15, 1913. He was born in Laconia, October 6, 1847, 
the son of Joseph Prescott and Charlotte A. (Parker) 
Pitman. He was descended from the early Puritan 
settlers of Essex County, Massachusetts. Among his an- 
cestors were men who served with distinction in the 
Colonial Wars and in the Revolution. He was for several 
years a member of the Society of Colonial Wars in the 
State of New Hampshire, respected and loved by all. 

He was educated at New Hampton Institution, and 
Phillips Academy at Andover. After leaving school, he 
turned his attention to the hosiery manufacturing in- 
dustry, thoroughly mastering all the details of the busi- 
ness. He was in company with his father from 1870 to 
1874. In 1874 the Pitman Manufacturing Company was 
incorporated and he was its general manager from its 
incorporation until the day of his death and its president 
from his father's death. Mr. Pitman devoted himself 
very closely to the management of the business, was 
thoroughly familiar with eveiy detail and was acknowl- 
edged to be one of the best and most successful hosiery 
manufacturers in this section of the country. He was a 
true friend to the many people in his employ and the 
happy relations between employer and employed were 
always noticeable in his factory. 

He was for many years a director in the Laconia 
National Bank and was its vice-president at the time of 
his death. He served for years as a trustee of the public 
library and, as a trustee of the Major Gale fund for a 




Cijarleg jFranfe pitman 

ILatonta, jS. J^. 

JSorn ©ttobcr 6. 1847 
IBitt) map 15. 1913 



IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 59 

city library and park, he was one of the committee having 
in charge the erection of the fine Gale Memorial Library 
building. He was a trustee of the Laconia Hospital Asso- 
ciation and a member of the committee in charge of the 
construction of the hospital building. He was always 
interested in everything which contributed to the wel- 
fare and prosperity of his native city. 

He was a consistent and faithful member of the Con- 
gregational Church, president of the Congregational 
Society, senior deacon of the church and was chairman 
of the building committee which erected the beautiful 
stone edifice. 

Altliough Mr. Pitman took a keen interest in public 
affairs he never cared for public office or political hon- 
ors. He was strongly attached to his home life and chose 
to pass his leisure hours with his family where he was 
a most devoted husband and father. 

Mr. Pitman was a man of much refinement and culture, 
a lover of books and art. He took a great interest in 
flowers and his beautiful garden and grounds were a 
joy to many. He was very genial and thoughtful for 
others with a quick eye to see the best in them. He was 
a rare neighbor, very benevolent and ready to help others. 

He married, October 15, 1890, Grace Anna, daughter 
of the late Hon. 0. A. J. Vaughan. They have had two 
children, Ruth Marion, who died in infancy, and Charles 
Joseph, born January 22, 1895. 

Mr. Pitman had been in failing health for a number of 
years, but with the courage and persistency which were 
so characteristic of him, he continued to apply himself 
to his manufacturing interests as long as he was able to 
make the journey from his residence to his office. 

Mr. Pitman was widely known as a strong business 
man of undoubted integrity and great sagacity, punctual 



60 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

in meeting every engagement, and faithful in performing 
every duty and combining energy with prudence to a 
rare degree. 

In the death of Mr. Pitman, Laconia lost a very im- 
portant citizen, not only in business and manufacturing 
circles, literary circles, churches and charities, but in the 
inspiration which comes from a noble personal character. 
(By Judge Charles Upham Bell, And over, Mass.) 



Our Government—The Evolution of Colonial 
Experience. 



Hon. James Otis Lyford. 

As there is a tendency to-day to incorporate in con- 
stitutions, both state and national, provisions that are 
properly legislative enactments, and as there is a demand 
that the restraints of the organic lav/ upon popular im- 
pulse be removed, and that a more speedy method of its 
amendment be provided, such societies as yours, having 
for their object the promotion of patriotic endeavor by 
keeping alive the achievements of the past, are in duty 
bound to inquire whether such movements are the natural 
evolution of government by the people or are a growth 
inimicable to the perpetuity of republican institutions. 
I, therefore, invite your attention to conditions prevailing 
in the colonial and constructive period of our history, 
that you may assist in determining whether we have 
outgrown the constitutions of the fathers and are in need 
of the radical changes now advocated. 

At the present time we are apt to lose sight of the fact 
that representative government as established in the 
United States was not the immediate conception of a 
people who had won their independence of arbitrary con- 
trol, but merely an advanced step in the progress of self 
government. The aspirations that led the American col- 
onies to throw off the yoke of Great Britain and seek to 
establish a government of the people were centuries old. 
Their ancestors of the English race had continual strug- 
gle for a larger participation of the governed in the affairs 



62 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

of state. Other peoples had sought for liberty of thought 
and action with varied success since the dawn of civiliza- 
tion. There had been temporary triumphs followed by 
lamentable defeats with their striking lessons for future 
generations. Republics had been born, had flourished and 
had passed out of existence. The advance of mankind 
from the rule of the savage chief to government by con- 
stitutional limitation had everywhere been marked by 
tears and blood. The desire for stability of government 
after a reign of disorder, begotten by mistaking license 
for liberty, had ever made welcome the strong arm of 
individual rule, even though it abridged the liberties of 
the people. History was full of sign posts of warning 
pointing to the rocks and quicksands that had wrecked 
previous endeavors. It was, therefore, merely another 
experiment that the American colonies were to make when 
they grappled with the question of self government. 

Separated as they were from the mother country by 
a wide expanse of ocean, then requiring weeks to cross, 
the colonies were especially fortunate in that they were 
left largely to their own initiative in interpreting the 
charters under which settlements had been made. These 
charters were of three kinds, the royal, as it existed in 
Virginia and New Hampshire, where the crown was in 
direct control; the proprietory, where the grant of ter- 
ritory was made to an individual or individuals as pro- 
prietors, as prevailed in most of the middle and southern 
colonies ; and the elective, where the people had a voice 
in their government, as in New England. The variety of 
these charters and the isolation of the colonies from im- 
mediate supervisory control of the mother country af- 
forded peculiar opportunities for experiment. In some 
of the proprietory colonies the proprietors tried to intro- 
duce systems of government original in many respects, 



IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 63 

but visionary rather than practical. "In all these col- 
onies," says Professor Green in his work, The Provincial 
Governor, "the elaborate machinery passed away, the 
paper constitution died a natural death, but the popular 
tendencies embodied in some of the earlier documents 
left their impress on the later constitutional govern- 
ments." 

It was largely from New England, however, that the 
other colonies formed their ideas of self government. 
Here the elective system was early established, and in 
spite of revocation of charters and attempts at arbitrary 
rule by the Stuarts, it was maintained. Here, as else- 
where, occurred the gradual evolution that finally resulted 
in the federal and state constitutions that succeeded the 
Revolutionary War. These constitutions were, therefore, 
born of the experience of the people who framed them. 
They were not of mushroom growth, hastily put together 
to meet an emergency, but in all the colonies they were 
the result of a gradual development of crude beginnings. 
It had required more than a century of trial, interrupted 
by continual interference with the crown, constant con- 
flict with royal governors and repeated failures, to evolve 
the system of representative government that the cen- 
tury succeeding the Revolutionary War has made so 
successful in the United States. There is hardly a con- 
dition at the present time that did not find in some form 
its counterpart during the colonial and constructive 
periods, while some of the modern proposals for chang- 
ing our form of government are but the discarded ex- 
periences of the fathers. 

Reviewing, therefore, our colonial history, we more 
readily understand why there are restraints in the fun- 
damental law of our federal and state constitutions, why 
it is necessary to protect minorities from the summary or 



64 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

arbitrary action of majorities, why the sphere of the 
executive, legislative and judicial departments is clearly 
defined, why the judiciary is made independent of popular 
clamor, and why any changes of tlie general principles 
of government are to represent the deliberate thought of 
the people. In providing the safeguard of written con- 
stitutions the people of the colonies were in part guided 
by the history of the remote past, but they vrere more 
greatly influenced by their own experiences as the^^ were 
gradually developing among themselves a government of 
the people. 

They had felt the tyranny of executives appointed by 
the crown. They had experienced injustice from judges 
appointed by ro^^al governors. They had seen the inef- 
fectiveness of legislative assemblies with indefinite 
powers, and some of them had known what it v.'as to 
have executive, legislative and judicial authority all 
vested in one man sent from England to govern them. At 
first the governors of Virginia, Maryland, New York, the 
Carolinas and New Hampshire made, executed and in- 
terpreted the laws. Legislative assemblies after estab- 
lishment were often precarious. The governors frequently 
attempted to pass upon the election and qualification of 
the members, and, if the presiding officer was not ac- 
ceptable, vetoed his election. If the assembly refused to 
grant supplies, that body was prorogued to make its 
members more amenable, or dissolved altogether. In 
answer to Governor Andros, who recommended that a legis- 
lature be granted to the colony of New York, James the 
Second replied that assemblies were destructive of the 
peace of governments -udiere they were allowed. Where 
the governor of a colony dared, he legislated by procla- 
mation when the legislature was not in session. When 
the governor had been forced to give up the power of 
legislating, he still claimed the right of initiating it. 



IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 65 

While the colonies had a bicameral system of legisla- 
tures, the upper branch was not at any time, outside of 
New England, the choice of the people. This second 
branch was a council, whose members were appointed by 
royal or proprietary governors, and it had a negative 
upon the assembly. "In some of the colonies," says Prof. 
Green, "the governor and council sat and voted with the 
assembly. After the division of assemblies into two 
houses, the governor at first generally sat either as a 
member of the upper house or as its presiding officer. 
In Massachusetts and New York, although the right was 
disputed, the governor appears to have taken part in the 
deliberations of the council. In Pennsylvania the gov- 
ernor was himself a species of upper house, though the 
council was called upon for advice, while in North and 
South Carolina conflict over the right of the governor to 
take part in the deliberations of the council occurred. 
When he was finally forced out of the council, the gov- 
ernor still exerted an influence over that body by reason 
of his appointment of its members. ' ' Thus it will be seen 
that it was step by step that the colonies established the 
independent prerogatives of the assembly whose members 
they elected, and that in most of them the election of 
members of the upper branch of the legislature was not 
secured until they began to frame their state constitu- 
tions. 

In contending for the independence of the assembly, 
however, the colonies went to the other extreme and by 
their control of the purse they had succeeded at the time 
of the War of Independence in reducing the powers of the 
governor to almost nothing. He was dependent upon the 
assembly for his own salary and that of his appointees, 
for supplies to carry on the government, and upon its 
vote to raise troops for the French and Indian wars. 



66 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

Even at the peril of the colony from Indian raids the 
assemblies haggled in appropriating money until the gov- 
ernor consented to concede to them authority that by 
their charters and the instructions of the crown were 
vested in him. They nominated civil officers in their ap- 
propriation bills, and, when the governor protested that 
these appointments belonged to him, they stubbornly 
refused to amend these measures. They even followed 
their enactments to the executive chamber to see that 
they were approved before they presented the regular 
supply bills that carried appropriations for salaries. 

The encroachment of the legislature upon the prerog- 
atives of the executive were not more clearly seen than 
in the conduct of military affairs. If there is any fmiction 
which especially requires the concentration of authority 
in a single head it is certainly the command of military 
affairs and the conduct of military operations. In the 
frequent French and Indian wars the urgent need of 
action enabled the assembly to impose upon the governor 
the most arduous conditions. In various colonies com- 
mittees of the legislature took virtual charge of military 
campaigns, appointing and even attempting to remove 
officers. 

In Massachusetts a committee was appointed by the 
General Court to consider projects for carrying on the 
war with instructions to report to the assembly. Another 
committee was named to take charge of provisions and 
supplies. A committee of war consisting of five members 
was also chosen to sit at or near Albany and to follow 
instructions from the General Court "for the more effec- 
tual carrying into execution the intended expedition 
against Crown Point." (Mass. Prov. Laws III 940-963.) 
Similar action was taken in New Hampshire, when agents 
were appointed in 1756 to repair to Albany and to trans- 



IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 67 

act there any affairs relating to the expedition, following 
"such instructions as they received from time to time 
from the general assembly." (N. II. Prov. Papers VI 
368-371, 506-520.) 

It will thus be seen why in the early state constitutions 
the power of the governor was so limited. Accustomed 
as the colonies were to encroachments by the royal gov- 
ernor, contending as they had for the independence of 
the legislature, they were suspicious of dangers to their 
liberties in fully clothing the executive branch of their 
state governments with independent authority. In New 
Hampshire under its first constitution, that of 1776, there 
was no provision for an executive. The legislature con- 
sisted of a house of representatives and a council of 
twelve members uniting the powers of legislation, ad- 
ministration and appointment. The election of the coun- 
cil or second branch of the legislature was vested in the 
house of representatives. It was not until eight years 
later, when the constitution of 1784 was ratified, that 
provision was made for an executive department to con- 
sist of a president of the state and an advisory council. 
Even then this co-ordinate branch of the executive depart- 
ment consisted of two members of the senate and three 
members of the house chosen by joint ballot of the legis- 
lature, the people not yet being ready to make the ex- 
ecutive entirely independent of the legislative branch. In 
the constitution of 1792 provision was made for electing 
the council by the people and the governor was given 
the veto power. With all their colonial experience, it 
took sixteen years of trial as an independent state before 
the people of New Hampshire secured a constitution satis- 
factory to themselves. Three different drafts were sub- 
mitted to the people before that of 1784 was ratified, and 
this in turn was superseded by the constitution of 1792. 



68 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

Without any change of its fundamental principles, this 
constitution of 1792 has answered our purpose for one 
hundred and twenty years. 

The present judicial system of the states and of the 
United States was also built upon colonial experience. 
The creation of courts and the appointment of judges 
were generally the prerogatives of the colonial governors. 
The authority of the governor to appoint the judges 
appears to have been conceded, but not so his power to 
establish courts and define their jurisdiction. According 
to Governor Thomas Pownall of Massachusetts Bay, this 
right of the governor to create courts was universally 
disputed on the ground that no court could be erected 
except by act of the legislature. Beginning with this 
contention, there was a constant struggle between the 
governor and the colonial assembly for the control of the 
judiciary. 

In many of the colonies the terms of the judges were 
fixed during good behavior, but this practice was dis- 
couraged and finally forbidden by the crown on the 
ground that life tenure made the judges too independent 
of the crown. The governors were, therefore, instructed 
to grant judicial commissions during pleasure only, and 
in 1761 the king notified the governors that a violation 
of this instruction would be a cause for their removal. 
To further control the judges, the assemblies insisted 
upon paying their salaries by annual grants, while the 
crown demanded permanent salaries. 

The judicial authority originally vested in the governor 
was much limited by the organization of the courts, but 
in most of the colonies the governor and council continued 
until the Revolutionary War to be the highest court of 
appeal within the province. Thus the governor and the 
council, the latter being a branch of the legislature, were 



IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE gg 

called upon to interpret the laws they had had a hand in 
making. In addition, these appeals to them were from 
decisions of judges appointed by the governor with or 
without the consent of his council. 

The absence of a court of equity within the colonies 
led to the practice of the legislature granting relief upon 
petition by resolution or order, and this power was ex- 
tended to the suspension of public laws. 

Every colony adopted so much of the common law of 
England as its courts thought to be applicable to the 
colony, and the laws passed by assemblies varied in the 
different provinces. The arbitrary rulings of the judges 
contributed to the defective administration of the law 
and the absence of appellate courts gave no opportunity 
for redress. "These general apprehensions and reason- 
ings upon experience," says Governor Pownall, "have 
led many very knowing and dispassionate men in the 
colonies into a conviction of the necessity of some es- 
tablished and constitutional court of appeal and redress, 
and the following measure has not only been suggested 
but even taken up as a matter of consideration by some 
of the ablest lawyers in that country, namely, the estab- 
lishment of a supreme court of appeal and equity, not 
confined to any one government, but circuiting through 
a certain district of governments, perhaps as follows : one 
to Nova Scotia and New England, one to New York, New 
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, one to Virginia, the 
Carolinas and Georgia. It has been imagined that this 
court should be established by a commission issued to two 
or more persons for each district, learned in the law not 
only of the mother country but of the several governments 
in its said district, that this commission should be given 
full powers of a court of chancery, with powers also of 
judging of matters of law to be brought before this 



70 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

court by writ of error from the several superior courts of 
the district which this extended to." 

Here we have foreshadowed the Supreme Court of the 
United States as it was later provided in the federal 
constitution, while from their colonial experiences the 
builders of state constitutions saw the necessity for guard- 
ing in the organic law of the states the independence and 
the permanency of the judiciary. These constitutions 
provided for both trial and appellate courts. It was no 
longer necessary to petition the legislature for relief in 
equity. The executive could ai)point but he could not 
remove judges. During good behavior or for a definite 
period the judges were to serve subject only to removal 
by impeachment or by address of the legislature. Where 
the judges were elected by pojiuiar vote, they had a def- 
inite term of service. The courts were thus protected 
from the arbitrary interference of the executive on the 
one hand and from the coercion of popular clamor on the 
other. 

The first provision for the tenure of judges in New 
Hampshire is found in the constitution of 1784. This pro- 
vision is that, "All judicial officers * * * shall hold 
their offices during good behavior," and the identical 
language is repeated in the constitution of 1792 and 
continues to this day. Two methods of removal were also 
provided. The judges could be impeached by the house 
of representatives for bribery, corruption, malpractice 
or maladministration in office, tried by the senate and 
removed upon conviction, or they could be removed by 
the governor upon address of botli houses of the legis- 
lature. 

In the present agitation for the recall by popular vote 
of judges whose decisions do not conform to popular 
conceptions, it has not occurred to these advocates to 



IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ^l 

examine the present method of recall provided by the 
earlier state constitutions. It is a fact that the New 
Hampshire methods of removal, both by impeachment 
and address by the legislature, were embodied in nearly 
all the constitutions of the original thirteen states and 
remain in nearly all of them to the present day. This 
recall, however, is not that of popular clamor incited by 
demagogues, but is a removal by representatives of the 
people in a deliberate assembly. 

The provision for removal by address of the legislature, 
where the cause was not sufficient ground for impeachment, 
has sometimes been used by partisans to secure for them- 
selves the full fruits of a political victory at the polls, 
but public sentiment has at least discouraged, if it has 
not entirely stopped, this practice of dragging the courts 
into politics. This method of removal of judges, however, 
still remains in the earlier state constitutions as a last 
resort if judges become arbitrary, even though not guilty 
of briber}^, corruption, malpractice or maladministration 
in office. In their wisdom the fathers foresaw that occa- 
sion might arise when it would be impossible to impeach 
judges for misconduct and yet their days of usefulness 
be over. But their own experience in the formative period 
of our government taught them that this power of recall 
would not inure to the independence of the judiciary if 
exercised at the hustings by appeals to the passions and 
prejudices of the people. Therefore, they put this power 
in their deliberate assemblies, firmly believing that, if the 
people were indifferent in the selection of suitable repre- 
sentatives to their legislatures, they would be equally in- 
different if directly called upon to pass or approve 
measures. 

It was in the midst of colonial conditions that the people 
began their plan of self government. Rich and varied 



72 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

as had been their experiences as dependencies, where, 
jealous of their chartered rights, they were continually 
reaching out for more power, they were now to have their 
confidence in themselves put to a severer test in their 
attempts to set up independent state and national govern- 
ments. The menace of war had held them together under 
the general declarations first put forth as constitutions, 
but, when peace was declared and the foreign foe had 
been removed, they faced a more insidious enemy in the 
license that new bom liberty promotes. It was one thing 
to fight for freedom. It was quite another to endure 
control after freedom was won. They must now build 
for permanency or anarchy would follow independence. 
Life and property must be protected; revenue must be 
raised to pay debts that had been incurred by the war 
and to support the instrumentalities of government; 
courts must be established to dispense justice ; and there 
must be regulations for the well ordering of society, that 
its individuals might attain their highest usefulness. 

The story of this period of construction is vividly told 
by McMaster, Fiske and other historians, and it is the 
most instructive period of our history. The people were 
burdened by both private and public debts; they were 
without a currency; business had been paralyzed by the 
war ; the soldiers of the continental armies had been dis- 
charged with arrears of pay, which the Congress under 
the Articles of Confederation was powerless to meet, 
and on all sides went up cries for relief to the state 
governments that had been temporarily set up. Cred- 
itors sought payment of their debts. The people de- 
manded of their assemblies the issue of paper money as 
a stimulus of trade and stay laws to prevent the enforce- 
ment of executions issued by the courts. The enforce- 



IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 73 

ment of law for the payment of debts brought many hard- 
ships, and the people, under the influence of misguided 
leaders, began to complain of the courts, the judges, the 
sheriffs and the lawyers as unnecessary evils. They de- 
manded the abolition of the courts, the limiting of the 
number of lawyers and the repudiation of debts. 

Conventions were held and resolutions passed denounc- 
ing both the legislatures and the courts. ]\Iobs assembled 
in the shire towns of Massachusetts to prevent the sitting 
of the courts, and Shay's Rebellion followed the efforts 
of the authorities to protect the judiciary. The inflamed 
populace marched in an armed band to Exeter, New 
Hampshire, to overawe the legislature then in session 
and to compel that body to issue a paper currency. In 
Rhode Island, the legislature, giving heed to the popular 
demand for paper money, provided for its issue and at- 
tempted to fortify it against depreciation by the passage 
of a forcing act compelling the merchants to accept this 
money at its face value. When it was refused in pay- 
ment of goods, except at a discount, a case was brought 
before the court. After hearing, that tribunal decided 
the forcing act to be unconstitutional. Immediately the 
legislature was reassembled and four of the judges of 
the court were summarily removed, or, as we would state 
the case at this time, recalled, because their decision was 
unpopular. 

There was no national feeling in the country. Patriot- 
ism was bounded by state lines. Each state regulated its 
trade with its neighbors and with foreign nations and 
discriminated against both. Vessels from Connecticut and 
New Jersey bound with produce for New York were 
obliged to enter and clear, paying duties the same as 
vessels from Europe. Wherever states bordered on com- 
mon waters there was commercial warfare between them. 



74 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

There was no tribunal to settle boundary disputes, no 
national control and but little subordination to authority 
anywhere. In the five years from 1783 to 1788 the nev/- 
born republic was rapidly drifting towards anarchy. It 
was amid these conditions and with these experiences 
that the preliminary state constitutions were revised and 
strengthened and the federal constitution was born. 

The constructive statesmen of that day saw the neces- 
sity for a strong and stable government and for a funda- 
mental law that should be a guide to executive, legis- 
lative and judicial action. In this fundamental law, 
which they called the constitution, they laid down certain 
general principles and fixed certain restraints which, while 
enabling the majority to rule, also protected the minority 
in its rights. Realizing from their experience both as 
colonies and as states that the immediate impulse of the 
people is not always safe and sane and that passion and 
prejudice can be excited by demagogues, they provided 
for the deliberation of representative government, and 
then, as a check upon their deliberative assemblies, they 
provided power in their courts to decide whether legis- 
lation came within the provisions of their constitutions. 
To secure from the courts just and unbiased decisions, 
they guarded the independence of the .judiciary from both 
the interference of other departments of the government 
and from the menace of popular disapproval. Before their 
eyes were not only the contests they had made with the 
representatives of the crown when they were colonies 
but also the dangers incurred from weak state and na- 
tional governments in the formative period of the republic. 

The constructors of government in this country were 
familiar with English history. "The Agreement of the 
People" and the "Instrument of Government," docu- 
ments made famous by Cromwell, while containing much 



IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 75 

that was not put into practice by the mother country, 
offered suggestions for the written guaranties that the 
people of the new workl were now to incorporate into 
their state and federal constitutions. By following Article 
XXIV of the text of the "Instrument of Government" 
we find the paternity of the provisions in our federal 
constitution and those of Massachusetts and New Hamp- 
shire as to "bills being signed or not signed" after a 
certain number of days, and we might go on little by 
little to discover that our American principles have proto- 
types in these two remarkable English documents, but 
differing most emphatically in the judiciary and the power 
of the executive. 

While drawing from English precedents, the builders 
of our organic law were not unmindful of the causes that 
in the mother country frequently checked the growth of 
representative government. There had been many breaks 
from the winning of the great charter at Runnymede to 
the establishment of parliamentary control in Great 
Britain. Although King John was humiliated by his 
nobles, and popular freedom advanced still further under 
his weak successor, Henry the Third, this did not prevent 
the acclaim of the English people for the strong rule of 
Edward the First, who arrogated power to himself while 
pleasing his subjects by humiliating the barons through 
the extension of parliamentary government. The Wars 
of the Roses with their bloodshed and disorder paved the 
way for a king of Henry the Seventh's despotic character 
and for the still more arbitrary reign of Henry the Eighth, 
Revolt against the tyranny of the Stuarts carried Charles 
the First to the scaffold and abolished the monarchy. Par- 
liamentary rule followed. Its incapacity made welcome 
the usurpation of autocratic authority by Oliver Crom- 



76 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

well because it brought order out of disorder. The an- 
archy that followed Cromwell's death invited again the 
rule of the Stuarts. The story of English government was 
the most perfect example of the rise and fall of consti- 
tutional limitations. Hence the builders of constitutions 
in America were careful to guard against their subversion 
by strong and popular leaders. The legislature and the 
courts were to prevent encroachments upon the constitu- 
tions by the executive, and the deliberate processes of 
amendment were to secure them against sudden or violent 
change at the behest of some idol of the people impatient 
at their restraints. 

But their own experiences and failures were the im- 
portant factors in their guidance. More than a century 
of conflict with the crown, ending in revolution, had 
secured to the people of the United States the right to 
govern themselves, but, when faced with this problem, 
their colonial and early state experiences taught them 
that there could be tyranny of majorities as well as of 
individuals and that liberty could easily become license 
unless it conformed to established rules and regulations. 
The craze for paper money, the popular demand for 
governmental relief from conditions that followed an 
exhaustive war, the ready ear that was turned to remedies 
suggested by the visionary and the demagogue during the 
period of construction, all foreshadowed to the architects 
of our constitutions what the result would be of a govern- 
ment by impulse. To this experience was added the 
knowledge of what had overtaken the pure democracies 
of ancient times. It was, therefore, with settled convic- 
tions that the fathers laid deep the foundations for rep- 
resentative government an.d safeguarded its permanency 
by those provisions in our constitutions that are checks, 



IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 77 

balances and restraints at one and the same time upon 
the intrusions of individual ambition and upon the up- 
heavals of collective passion and discontent. 

When constitutions are born of such experiences and 
have stood the test of all the changeable conditions of a 
century of growth and expansion, including a war to 
destroy the Union, when in all this period of time there 
has arisen no crisis, foreign or domestic, that we have not 
been able to overcome through adherence to our constitu- 
tional requirements, is it wise to now^ undermine the 
organic structure by the introduction of innovations that 
the builders rejected? 

There are no evils of the present in the body politic 
exceeding in their menace those of the past. The latter 
were eradicated by the methods prescribed in our funda- 
mental law. There is no short cut or royal road in the 
evolution of mankind. The progress of the governments 
of civilization has never been by leaps and bounds but by 
plodding persistence following repeated failures. No 
changes in systems of government can eliminate the 
human element in those who govern and those who are 
governed. So long as man falls short of the infinite, just 
so long will there be wrongs to redress and just so long 
will any method of rule fall short of perfection. It is not 
to-day the system of government that is at fault, but the 
indifference of individuals to the opportunities afforded 
them under our constitutions and laws. "When the voter 
as instinctively and readily performs his civic duties as 
he discharges his moral obligations, there wall be no doubt 
of the wisdom of the fathers in establishing a represent- 
ative government. 

From the colonial charter to acceptable state and federal 
constitutions was a period of more than a hundred and fifty 
years' experience in construction, witli a background of 



78 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

centuries of precedent to draw from. The structure thus 
grounded has stood the test of more than a century of 
practical operation. Are the present prophets of change 
wiser than all the ages that we should blindly follow their 
lead? Are our grievances to-day so great and the con- 
stitutional restraints so irksome that we must needs substi- 
tute theory for practice? Our own history for the nine- 
teenth century has its warnings of the danger of yielding 
to impulsive demands. The burdens following the Civil 
"War made repudiation of public debts as popidar as a like 
course was in the dark days that succeeded the War of the 
Revolution. The free and unlimited coinage of silver at 
a later day had a charm that readily caught the unwary. 
That we did not yield to these seductive appeals was due 
largely to the opportunity offered for deliberation under 
a representative government. A system of control of our- 
selves, that has so effectually protected us in more than a 
hundred years of trial, should not be lightly set aside 
because the main army of the people is not moving as 
rapidly as its advance scouts or because the present and 
the future present WTongs to be redressed. 



List of Members, 



WITH 



Lines of Descent. 



[The names of former members and deceased members, with 
ancestral records, may be found in the volumes previously issued 
by the New Hampshire Society. Also in the Annual Registers 
of the General Society.] 

42. Ball, George Oscar, Claremont, N. H. 

Eighth in descent from Gov. Simon Bradstreet. 
Ninth in descent from Gov. Thomas Dudley. 

14. Bangs, Charles McClary, Cambridge, Mass. 

Fourth in descent from Capt. John McClary. 

74. Banning, Kendall, Walpole, N. H. 

Eighth in descent from Capt. Joseph Sill. 

101. Batchelder, Nathaniel Haywood, Keene, N. H. 
Eighth in descent from Lieut. John Willey. 

18. Beatty, Franklin Thomason, M. D., Boston, Illass. 
Fourth in descent from Thomas Beatty. 
Seventh in descent from Gov. Jean Paul Jaquett. 
Sixth in descent from Capt. Andreas Bengsten. 

86. Bissell, Leslie Dayton, Ph. D., Concord, N. H. 
Fifth in descent from Lieut. Ozias Bissell. 

52. Brown, Elisha Rhodes, Dover, N. H. 

Eighth in descent from Rev. Chad Brown. 
Seventh in descent from Dep.-Gov. John Brown. 
Sixth tn descent from Rev. James Brown. 
Fifth in descent from Dep.-Gov. Elisha Brown. 
Tenth in descent from Col. Richard Waterman. 



go THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

Tenth in descent from Christopher Peake. 
Tenth in descent from William Almy. 
Tenth in descent from Dr. John Greene. 
Ninth in descent from Dep.-Gov. John Greene. 
Seventh in descent from Peter Green. 
Ninth in descent from Gov. Roger Williams. 
Ninth in descent from Zachary Rhodes. 
Eighth in descent from John Rhodes. 
Seventh in descent from Maj. John Rhodes. 
Ninth in descent from Capt. Randall Holden. 
Eighth in descent from Lieut. Charles Holden. 
Eighth in descent from William Harris. 
Seventh in descent from Lieut. Andrew Harris. 
Eighth in descent from Rev. Obadiah Holmes. 
Eighth in descent from Richard Tew. 

90. Brown, Harold Winthrop, Dover, N. H. 

Seventh in descent from Rev. Chad BroM'n. 
Sixth in descent from Dep.-Gen. John Brown. 
Fifth in descent from Rev. James Brown. 
Fourth in descent from Dep.-Gov. Elisha Brown. 
Ninth in descent from Col. Richard Waterman. 
Ninth in descent from Christopher Peake. 
Ninth in descent from William Almy. 
Ninth in descent from Dr. John Greene. 
Eighth in descent from Dep.-Gov. John Greene. 
Sixth in descent from Peter Green. 
Eighth in descent from Gov. Roger Williams. 
Eighth in descent from Zachary Rhodes. 
Seventh in descent from John Rhodes. 
Sixth in descent from Maj. John Rhodes. 
Eighth in descent from Capt. Randall Holden. 
Seventh in descent from Lieut. Charles Holden. 
Eighth in descent from William Harris. 
Sixth in descent from Lieut. Andrew Harris. 



7^ THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE Ql 

Seventh in descent from Rev. Obadiah Holmes. 
Seventh in descent from Richard Tew. 
Fifth in descent from Capt. Joseph Bickford. 
Fifth in descent from Maj. Joseph Smith. 
Sixth in descent from Col. Samuel Smith. 
Seventh in descent from Jeremiah Burnham. 
Eighth in descent from Lieut. George Smith. 

97. Cilley, Gen. Harry Bouton, Manchester, N. H. 

Eighth in descent from Capt. Stephen Greenleaf, Sr. 

43. Colt, James Milnor, Ph. D., Concord, N. H. 
Sixth in descent from John Rowland. 

21. Conn, Granville Priest, M. D., Concord, N. H. 

Third in descent from John Conn. 

67. Durrell, Rev. Jesse Murton, Tilton, N. H. 

Fifth in descent from Capt. Benjamin Durrell. 

22. Eastman, Hon. Samuel Coffin, Concord, N. H. 

Fourth in descent from Capt. Ebenezer Eastman. 

55. Edgerly, Edwin Lorraine, New York City. 
Fourth in descent from David Edgerly. 

63. Pish, Charles Henry, Dover, N. H. 

Eighth in descent from Lieut. Timothy Tileston. 

99. Fletcher, Hon. Georg^e Moore, Concord, N. H. 

Seventh in descent from Ensign William Fletcher. 

95. Flint, Wyman Kneeland, Antrim, N. H. 

Ninth in descent from Capt. Matthew Fuller. 

71. Folsom, William Howard, Exeter. 

Seventh in descent from Lieut, John Oilman. 

87. Forbes, Harry Rogers, New York City, 

Sixth in descent from Capt. Peter Powers. 



82 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

35. Foster, Joseph, Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy, Retired, 

Portsmouth, N. H. 
Fourth in descent from Capt. Jeremiah Foster. 
Seventh in descent from Thomas Boreman. 
Seventh in descent from William Goodhue. 
Seventh in descent from George Giddinge (Gid- 

dings). 
Fourth in descent from Lieut. Daniel Giddings. 
Sixth in descent from John Spalding. 
Sixth in descent from John Jackson. 
Sixth in descent from Lieut. George Ingersoll. 
Fifth in descent from Samuel Ingersoll. 
Sixth in descent from Thomas Riggs. 
Sixth in descent from Lieut. Samuel Ingalls. 
Sixth in descent from Q. M. Nathaniel Rust. 
Sixth in descent from Q. M. Robert Kinsman. 
Fifth in descent from Lieut. William Butler. 

85. Foster, William Kamilton, Concord, N. H. 
Sixth in descent from Abraham Foster. 

100. Gilchrist, Donald Bean, Franklin, N. H. 
Sixth in descent from James Dunlap. 

36. Gilchrist, Harry Wilbur, Franklin, N. H. 

Fifth in descent from James Dunlap. 

92. Gilman, Daniel, Exeter, N. H. 

Sixth in descent from John Gilman. 

80. Goodwin, Augustus Franklin, Boston, Mass. 

Eighth in descent from Gov. Robert Treat. 

61. Greenleaf, Hon. Charles Henry, Profile House, N. H. 
Eighth in descent from Lieut. Thomas Burnham. 

75. HaU, Dwight, Dover, N. H. 

Descended from Gov. Simon Bradstreet. 



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33. Hill, Rev. Howard Fremont, Concord, N. H. 
Fourth in descent from Abraham Hill. 
Fifth in descent from Thomas Adams. 
Ninth in descent from Thomas Fames. 

98. Jones, Rev. William Northy, Williamsport, Penn. 
Ninth in descent from Gov. Nicholas Easton. 
Seventh in descent from Lieut. Job Winslow. 
Ninth in descent from Thomas Dustin, Jr. 
Ninth in descent from Samuel Watts, Sr. 
Eighth in descent from Kenelm Winslow. 
Eighth in descent from Gov. Caleb Carr. 
Sixth in descent from Otto Stevens, Jr. 
Eighth in descent from Benjamin Emerson, Jr. 
Ninth in descent from Capt. Peter Coffin. 
Ninth in descent from Edward Starbuck. 
Eighth in descent from John Coggeshall. 
Ninth in descent from Capt. Edmund Greenleaf. 
Eighth in descent from Lieut. Tristram Coffin, Jr. 
Ninth in descent from Tristram Coffin, Sr. 

Knowlton, John Greenleaf Whittier, M. D., Dover, N. H. 
Fifth in descent from Capt. James MeCobb. 

122. Leighton, Col. George Bridge, IMonadnock, N. H. 
Sixth in descent from Capt. John Leighton. 

53. Morse, Prof. Fred Winslow, Amherst, Mass. 

Seventh in descent from Capt. John Jacob. 
Seventh in descent from Daniel Gushing. 

83. Pillsbury, Hon. Rosecrans William, Derry, N. H. 
Fifth in descent from Capt. Caleb Pillsbury. 

40. Plant, Morton Freeman, New York City. 
Sixth in descent from John Plant. 
Seventh in descent from John Frisbee. 
Ninth in descent from Hon. Thomas Greyson. 



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62. Remich, Hon. Daniel Clark, Littleton, N. H. 

Fourth in descent from Lieut. David Remick. 

58. Rollins, Hon. Frank West, Concord, N. H. 

Fifth in descent from Capt. Ebenezer Eastman. 

47. Scales, John, Dover, N. H. 

Seventh in descent from Capt. John Woodman. 
Fifth in descent from Col. Mark Hunking. 
Fifth in descent from Nathan Longfellow. 
Sixth in descent from Ensign William Longfellow. 
Sixth in descent from Capt. Jacob Green. 
Seventh in descent from Judge Henry Green. 
Fifth in descent from Stephen Batchelder. 
Sixth in descent from Capt. Henry True. 

77. Smith, Forrest Starr, Brookline, Mass. 

Sixth in descent from Col. Samuel Smith. 

76. Smith, Hon. Joshua Ballard, Durham, N. H. 

Ninth in descent from Gov. John Winthrop. 
Ninth in descent from Gov. Thomas Dudley. 
Eighth in descent from Rev. Samuel Dudley. 

88. Smith, Prof. Justin Harvey, Boston, Mass. 

Ninth in descent from Gov. William Bradford. 
Eighth in descent from Maj. William Bradford. 

76. Smith, William Dickinson Griswold, Castleton, Vt. 
Eleventh in descent from Gov. John Winthrop. 
Tenth in descent from George Calvert. 
Tenth in descent from Gov. Thomas Dudley. 
Ninth in descent from Gov. Leonard Calvert. 
Ninth in descent from Gov. Edward Digges. 
Ninth in descent from Gov. Robert Brooke. 
Ninth in descent from William Collier. 
Ninth in descent from Capt. James Neale. 
Ninth in descent from Rev. Samuel Dudley. 



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Ninth in descent from Thomas Ford. 
Ninth in descent from John Gallop. 
Ninth in descent from Thomas Judd. 
Ninth in descent from Joseph Loomis. 
Ninth in descent from John Peabody. 
Ninth in descent from Gov. Roger Conant. 
Ninth in descent from Maj. Edward Dale. 
Eighth in descent from Hon. John Alden. 
Eighth in descent from Dep.-Gov. Henry Darnall. 
Eighth in descent from Dep.-Gov. "William Burgess. 
Eighth in descent from Dep.-Gov. William Digges. 
Eighth in descent from Hon. Baker Brooke. 
Eighth in descent from Hon. Henry Sewall. 
Eighth in descent from Gen. Constant Southworth. 
Eighth in descent from Col. Nicholas Guyther. 
Eighth in descent from Lieut. Ralph Hall. 
Eighth in descent from Lieut. Samuel Loomis. 
Eighth in descent from Lieut. Anthony Neale. 
Eighth in descent from Nathaniel Dickinson. 
Eighth in descent from Elder John Strong. 
Eighth in descent from William Beardsley. 
Eighth in descent from John Bronson. 
Eighth in descent from Edward Griswold. 
Eighth in descent from Thomas Joy. 
Eighth in descent from William Peabody. 
Eighth in descent from Capt. Thomas Carter, Sr. 
Seventh in descent from Dep.-Gov. Nicholas Sewall. 
Seventh in descent from Col. John Bradford. 
Seventh in descent from Maj. Thomas Brooke. 
Seventh in descent from Thomas Chesley. 
Seventh in descent from Lieut. Francis Griswold. 
Seventh in descent from Cornet Andrew Burley. 
Seventh in descent from Sergt. Obadiah Dickinson. 
Seventh in descent from Dr. Samuel Seabury. 
Seventh in descent from David Alden. 



86 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

Seventh in descent from Thomas Burnham, 
Seventh in descent from Michael Humphrey. 
Seventh in descent from Samuel Joy. 
Seventh in descent from Fearnot King. 
Seventh in descent from Gary Latham. 
Seventh in descent from Capt. Thomas Carter, Jr. 
Sixth in descent from Capt. John Smith. 
Sixth in descent from Samuel Griswold. 
Sixth in descent from Capt. Charles Ellis. 
Sixth in descent from Abel Bingham. 
Sixth in descent from Richard Burnham. 
Fifth in descent from Hon. Thomas IMillet. 

20. Thome, John Calvin, Concord, N. H. 

Third in descent from Quartermaster John Thorne. 

48. Tilton, George Henry, Laconia, N. H. 

Sixth in descent from Daniel Tilton. 

57. Waterman, Rev. Lucius, Hanover, N. H. 

Sixth in descent from Gov. Joseph Jenckes. 
Seventh in descent from Asst.-Gov. Thomas Harris. 
Eighth in descent from Asst.-Gov. Samuel Gorton. 
Seventh in descent from Asst.-Gov. James Greene. 
Seventh in descent from John Wilkinson. 
Eighth in descent from Tristram Coffin. 

93. Watson, Irving Allison, M. D., Concord, N. H. 
Fifth in descent from Jonathan "Watson. 
Seventh in descent from Samuel Ladd. 
Sixth in descent from Daniel Thurston. 
Fifth in descent from Sergt. Thomas Howlet. 
Sixth in descent from Matthew Harriman. 
Seventh in descent from Gov. Thomas Hinckley 
Seventh in descent from Gov. Edward Tyng. 
Eighth in descent from Edward Tyng. 
Sixth in descent from Ensign Moses Chase. 



IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 87 

Ninth in descent from Capt. Edmund Greenleaf. 
Eighth in descent from Sergt. Thomas Hale. 
Eighth in descent from Sergt. John Emery. 
Seventh in descent from Henry Bodwell. 
Seventh in descent from Samuel Ward. 
Eighth in descent from "William Ward. 
Fifth in descent from Edmund Cheney. 
Eighth in descent from John Cheney. 
Eighth in descent from Robert Swan. 
Eighth in descent from James Chute. 
Sixth in descent from Sergt. Thomas Bartlett. 
Eighth in descent from Nicholas Noyce. 
Fifth in descent from Jabez Rice. 
Sixth in descent from Caleb Rice. 
Seventh in descent from Joseph Rice. 
Eighth in descent from Edmund Rice. 
Seventh in descent from Abraham Howe. 
Seventh in descent from John Howe, Sr. 
Sixth in descent from Nathan Brigham. 
Seventh in descent from Thomas Brigham. 
Seventh in descent from John Colby. 
Eighth in descent from John Whipple. 
Seventh in descent from Simon (2) Stone. 
Eighth in descent from Simon (1) Stone. 
Ninth in descent from Sergt. John Hoyt. 

60. Wellman, James Albert, Manchester, N. H. 

Tenth in descent from Gov. William Bradford. 

96. Wheeler, Giles, Concord, N. H. 

Fourth in descent from Daniel Wheeler. 
Fifth in descent from James Wheeler. 

64. Whittemore, Hon. Arthur Oilman, Dover, N. H. 

Fifth in descent from Rev. Aaron Whittemore. 

50. Williams, Capt. Jared Irving", Lancaster, N. H. 

Fifth in descent from Chap. Stephen Williams, D. D. 



Index of Ancestors and Descendants. 



[ancestors in small caps, descendants in italics.] 



Adams, Captain Thomas, 1713- 
1802. French and Indian 
War, Cambridge Company, 
which returned in autumn 
of 1758. 
Hill, Howard Fremont. 

Alden, David, 1646-1719, Dux- 
bury, Plymouth Colony, 
Mass. Deputy, 1690. 
Smith, WilliaTn D. G. 

Alden, John, 1599-1687. Last 
surviving signer of the 
"Mayflower Compact." In 
Captain Miles Standish's 
Duxbury Company, 1643. 
Governor's Assistant, 1632- 
'40, '50, '86. Deputy, 1641- 
'42, '44, '49. Council of 
War, '46, et seq., Plymouth 
Colony. Acting Deputy- 
Governor, 1664, '77. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Almy, William, 1601-1676. As- 
sembly, R. I., 1656-'57-'63. 
Brown, Elisha Rhodes. 
Broivn, Harold Winthrop. 

Barrett, Sergt. Thomas, 1600- 
1665. Sergeant in the Lou- 
don County, Va., Guards. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Batchelder, Stephen, 1676- 
1748, Hampton, N. H. Sol- 
dier in King William's War. 
Scales, John. 

Beardsley, William, 1605-1661, 
Stratford, Conn. Deputy to 
General Court, 1645, et seq. 
Assistant, 1651. 
Smith, William, D. G. 



Beatty, Thomas, 1700-1768. 
Justice of Prince George 
County, Maryland, 1739-'48. 
Justice of Frederick County, 
1748-'60. Justice of Quo- 
rum, 1749-'60. Burgess from 
Frederick County, 1757-'58. 
Beatty, Franklin Thomason. 

Bengsten, Andreas, 1640-1706. 
Member of Pennsylvania 
Assembly in the years 1683, 
1686, 1698. 
Beatty, Franklin Thomason. 

BicKFORD, Captain Joseph, 

1696 . Captain of a 

company in Durham, 1754. 
Served in French and Indi- 
an War. 
Brown, Harold Winthrop. 

Bingham, Abel, 1669-1745, 
Windham, Conn. Deputy to 
General Assembly, 1721- 
1724. 
Smith, WilliaTn D. G. 

Bissell,Ozias, 1729-1822. Served 
six years in French and In- 
dian War. In Lake George 
engagement, 1755. Taken 
prisoner at Havana, 1762. 
Bissell, Leslie Dayton. 

Bodwell, Henry, 1654 . 

Bloody Brook, in Captain 
Lathrop's Company, King 
Philip's War. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Boreman, Thomas, 1673, 

Ipswich, Mass. Represent- 
ative, General Court, 1636. 
Foster, Joseph. 



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THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 



Bradford, Colonel John, 

1726, Prince George's Coun- 
ty, Md. Captain, 1711. Colo- 
nel, 1726. Delegate to Ses- 
sion of 1711, Maryland As- 
sembly. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Bradford, Governor William, 
1704. Deputy-Governor Ply- 
mouth Colony, 1682-'86-'89- 
'92. Deputy, 1657. Assistant, 
1658, '68, '82. Commanded 
Plymouth Forces, Great 
Swamp Fight. Commis- 
sioner of the United Col- 
onies. Council of Massa- 
chusetts, 1691. 
Smith, Justin H. 

Bradford, Governor V/illiam, 
1589-1651. Governor of Ply- 
mouth Colony, 1621, et seq. 
Assistant, 1634, et seq. 

Smith, Justin H. 

Wellman, James Albert. 

Bradstreet, Governor Simon, 
1603-1697. First Secretary 
of Massachusetts Bay Col- 
ony. Assistant Commis- 
sioner of the United Col- 
onies, 1643. Deputy-Gov- 
ernor, 1672-1679. Governor, 
1676-1686. 

Ball, George Oscar. 

Hall, Divight. 

Brigham, Nathan, 1671-1747, 
Marlborough, Mass. Was 
Captain of a Garrison House 
in Marlborough, Mass., in 
King Philip's War. Deputy 
to the General Court, 1726, 
'30. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Brigham, Thomas, 1641-1717, 
Marlborough, Mass. Com- 
manded a Garrison House, 
in Marlborough, Mass., in 
King Philip's War. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 



Bronson, John, 1600-1680. In 

the Pequot War. Deputy 

from Farmington, Colony 

of Connecticut, 1651, et seq. 

Smith, William D. G. 

Brooke, Hon. Baker, 1628- 
1679. Member of the Coun- 
cil and Surveyor General of 
the Province of Maryland. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Brooke, Governor Robert, 
1602-1665. Commissioned 
by Lord Baltimore as Com- 
mander-in-Chief of a new 
county in Maryland, and a 
member of the Council. 
Commander of Charles Com- 
pany, 1650. Appointed, 
1652, by Cromwell's Com- 
missioners, President of the 
Council and Acting Gov- 
ernor. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Brooke. Major Thomas, 1632- 
1676. Major, Maryland 
Forces, 1660. Served in 
Expedition against Indians, 
1667. Member of Assembly 
for Calvert County, 1663- 
1676. 
Smith, William D. G. 



Brown, Rev. Chad, 



1650. 



One of the 13 signers of 
the compact. Providence 
Plantations, R. I. 

Broivn, Elisha Rhodes. 

Broivn, Harold Winthrop. 

Brown, Deputy-Governor Eli- 
sha, 1717-1802, Providence, 
R.I. Deputy-Governor Rhode 
Island, 1765-'67. 

Brown, Elisha Rhodes. 

Brown, Harold Wi^ithrop. 

Brown, Rev. James, 1666-1732. 

Providence, R. I. Deputy, 

1709-'15. 
Brown, Elisha Rhodes. 
Brown, Harold Winthrop. 



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91 



Brown, John, 1630-1706, Prov- 
idence, R. I. Governor's 
Assistant, Rhode Island, 
1665-1666. 

Broivn, EUsha Rhodes. 

Brown, Harold Winthrop. 

Burgess, Colonel William, 
1622-1686. Burgess for 
Anne Arundel County, Md., 
1659-1660, 1669-1682. Mem- 
ber of Council, 1682-1686, 
and Deputy-Governor, 1684- 
1686. Lieutenant, 1659. Cap- 
tain, 1661. Major, 1675. 
Colonel, 1676. Militia of 
Anne Arundel County. 
Commander-in-Chief, 1677, 
of Maryland Forces against 
Eastern Shore Indians. 
Smith, Willia7n D. G. 

BuRLEY, Cornet Andrew, 1657 

, Ipswich, Mass. Soldier 

in King Philip's War. 
Smith, William D. G. 

BuRNHAM, Jeremiah, Durham, 
N. H. Served as a Scout 
in Captain James Davis' 
Company of Oyster River 
Men. Also in the French 
and Indian War. 
Brown, Harold Winthrop. 

BuRNHAM, Richard, 1654-1731, 
Hartford, Conn. Soldier in 
the Narragansett Expedi- 
tion, 1675. 
Sinith, William D. G. 

Burnham, Thomas, 1617-16S8, 
Hartford, Conn. Soldier in 
King Philip's War. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Burnham, Lieutenant Thomas, 
Jr., 1623-1694. Ensign and 
Lieutenant, Ipswich, Mass., 
Company Deputy, 1683- 
1685. 
Greenleaf, Charles H. 



Butler, Lieutenant William, 
1653-1730, Ipswich, Mass. 
Lieutenant in Captain 
Francis Wainwright's Com- 
pany, 1696. 
Foster, Joseph. 

Calvert, Sir George, 1580-1632, 
Secretary of State of Eng- 
land, 1619-'25. First Baron 
Baltimore, to whom the 
Province of Maryland was 
granted, 1632. In 1622 he 
was one of the 18 Council- 
lors of the New England 
County. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Calvert, Governor Leonard, 
1606-1647. First Governor 
of Maryland, 1634-1647. 
Smith, William, D. G. 

Carr, Governor Caleb, 1624- 
1695. Commissioner from 
Newport to General Court, 
1654-'58-'59-'62. General 

Treasurer of the Colony, 
1661-'62. Deputy from 
Newport, 1679-'86-'90-'91. 
Governor, 1695. 
Jones, Rev. William Northy. 

Carter, Captain Thomas, Jr. 
Captain in Virginia Militia. 
Commissioned by Governor 
Spotswood, April 7, 1711. 
Justice of the Peace for 
Lancaster County, Va., con- 
tinuously for 24 years. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Carter, Captain Thomas, Sr., 
Lancaster County Va. Cap- 
tain in Virginia Militia. 
Member of House of Bur- 
gesses. 
S^nith, William D. G. 

Chase, Ensign Moses, 1663 
, Newbury, Mass. Cap- 
tain Hugh March's Com- 



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THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 



pany, "Snowshoe Men," Es- 
sex North Regiment, 1710. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Cheney, Edmund (5), 1719 , 

Newbui-y, Mass. Served as 
a soldier in Major Joseph 
Gerrish's Company in Crown 
Point Expeditions, 1754-5. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Cheney, John (3), 1666-1750, 
Newbury, Mass. Served as 
a soldier in Captain Thomas 
Noyes' Company of "Snow- 
shoe Men," North Regiment 
of Essex, 1710-'12. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Chesley, Thomas, 1644-1667, 
Dover, N. H. Killed by In- 
dians at Oyster River, No- 
vember 15, 1667. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Chute, James, 1613-1691, Ips- 
wich, Mass. A soldier in 
King Philip's War under 
Captain Jonathan Poole, 
and was a claimant of Nar- 
ragansett Township, No. 1. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Coffin, Captain Peter, 1631- 

1715, Newbury. Deputy, 
Massachusetts, 1672, 1673 
and 1679. Member Gov- 
ernor's Council, New Hamp- 
shire, 1692-1714. Presi- 
dent of Council, 1705. Coun- 
cillor and Governor, pro tem- 
pore, 1708. Lieutenant, Mas- 
sachusetts Militia, 1695 and 
1672. 
Jones, Rev. William Northy. 

Coffin, Lieutenant Tristram, 
1632-1704. Lieutenant at 
Newbury, 1683. Deputy, 
1695-1700-'02. Colony of 
Massachusetts Bay. 
Jones, Rev. William Northy. 



Coffin, Tristram, 1609-1681. 
Commissioner at Salisbury, 
1655. Chief Magistrate for 
Nantucket under Governor 
Lovelace, of New York, 
1671. 

Waterman, Lucius. 

Jones, Rev. William Northy. 

COGGESHALL, PRESIDENT JOHN, 

1591-1647, Rhode Island. 
President Colony and Prov- 
ince Plantations, 1647. Gov- 
ernor's Assistant, 1640- 
1644. Moderator, 1647. 
Deputy, Massachusetts, 

1634-1637. 
Jones, Rev. William Northy. 

Colby, John, 1656-1719, Ames- 
bury, Mass. Soldier in 
King Philip's War, in the 
Falls Fight, under Captain 
William Turner, 1676. In 
"Amesbury Training Band," 
1680. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 



Collier, William, 



1670. 



Governor's Assistant, 1634- 
1665, Plymouth Colony. 
Commissioner to United Col- 
onies, 1643. Representa- 
tive, Member Council of 
War, 1642, et seq. 
Smith, William D. G. 

CoNANT, Governor Roger, 1592- 
1679, Beverly, Mass. Gov- 
ernor, Colony at Cape Ann, 
1625-1626, and Salem, 1627- 
1629. Deputy, 1634. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Conn, Sergeant, John, Har- 
vard, Mass. Soldier in 
Colonel Timothy Ruggles' 
Regiment, summer cam- 
paign against Ticonderoga, 
1758. Also in company of 
Captain Aaron Willard in 
campaign of 1759. In 1760 



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93 



was Sergeant of a com- 
pany in campaign against 
Crown Point. 
Co7in, Granville Priest. 

Gushing, Daniel, 1619-1700, 
Hingham, Mass. Delegate 
to General Court of Massa- 
chusetts, 1680, 1682, 1695. 
Morse, Fred Winslow. 

Dale, Major Edward, 1694, 

Lancaster County, Va. 
Member of Virginia House 
of Burgesses. Major in Vir- 
ginia Militia. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Darnall, Deputy - Governor 

Henry, 1711. Colonel 

of Horse. Deputy-Governor 
of Maryland, 1684, et seq. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Dickinson, Nathaniel, 1615- 
1676, Connecticut. In Hamp- 
shire Guard under Captain 
John Pynchon, 1663, against 
the Indians. Deputy, 1642. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Dickinson, Sergeant Obadiah, 
1641-1698. Hatfield. In 
Hampshire Troop, 1663. 
Captured by the Indians, 

1677. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Digges, Governor Edward, 1621- 
1675. Member of Council, 
1654. Governor of Virginia, 
1656-'58. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Digges, Colonel William, 

1698. Member Maryland 
Council, 1681-'89. Deputy- 
Governor of Maryland, 
1684. 
Smith, William, D. G. 



Dudley, Samuel, 1610-1682, 
Salisbury, Mass. Deputy, 
1641-1645. Associate Judge 
at Salisbury, N. H. Lieuten- 
ant there under Captain 
John Underbill, 1631-'32. 
Chaplain, King Philip's 
War, under Winslow. 

Smith, Joshua D. 

Smith, William D. G. 

Dudley, Governor Thomas, 
1576-1653. Second Govern- 
or of Massachusetts Bay 
Colony, 1634, '40, '45, '50. 
Deputy-Governor, 1630, et 
seq. Assistant, 1635-6, '41- 
4. In office continuously 
twenty-two years. Commis- 
sioner, 1643, '47, '49, for, 
and twice President of, the 
United Colonies. Major- 
General, 1646. Signed Char- 
ter of Harvard College, 
1650. 

Ball, George Oscar. 

Smith, Joshua B. 

Smith, William D. G. 

DuNLAP, James. Private in 
Captain Alexander Mc- 
Nutt's Company, French 
and Indian War. 
Gilchrist, Harry Wilbur. 
Gilchrist, Donald Bean. 

DuRRELL, Captain Benjamin, 
1710-1784, Arundel (Kenne- 
bunkport) , Me. In Cap- 
tain Jona,than Bean's Com- 
pany, Saco, 1750. Captain, 
Upper Company, 1775. 
Durrell, Jesse Murton. 

DusTON, Thomas. In Captain 
Benjamin Swett's Company, 
King Philip's War. 
Jones, Rev. William Northy. 



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THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 



Evans, Thomas, 1618-1680, 
Framingham, Mass. In Pe- 
quot War. In King Philip's 
War. 
Hill, Howard Fremont. 

Eastman, Captain Ebenezer, 
1689-1748. At the age of 
nineteen joined the Expedi- 
tion against Port Royal. At 
twenty-one commanded a 
Company of Infantry in the 
attack on Canada, in 1711, 
under Admiral Walker. 
Commander of a Company 
at the reduction and sur- 
i-ender of Louisburg, 1745. 
He was the first settler of 
Concord, N. H. He built 
a fort, and, in 1746, his 
house was a garrison for 
defense against the Indians. 

Eastman, Samuel Coffin. 

Rollms, Frank West. 

Easton, Governor Nicholas, 
1593-1675. President of 
Rhode Island, 1650. Dep- 
uty-Governor, 1666, six 
years. Governor, 1672-'73- 
'74. Governor's Assistant, 
1640. Deputy, 1655-1666. 
Jones, Rev. William Northy. 

Edgerly, Daniel, 1741-1785, 
Brentwood, N. II. Soldier, 
French and Indian War. 
Member Captain Alexander 
Todd's Company, 1758. 
Member Captain Tilton's 
Company, 1760. 
Edgeriy, Ediv'in Lorraine. 

Ellis, Captain Charles, 1719- 
1759, Albermarle County, 
Va. In service on Frontier, 
1755-'56. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Emerson, Benjamin, Jr., 1716 
. Trooper in Captain 



Peter Pattee's Command, 
1745. 
Jones, Rev. William Northy. 

Emery, Sergeant John, 1629- 
1693, Newbury, Mass. Un- 
der Major Samuel Apple- 
ton, in Great Swamp Fight. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Fletcher, William, 1622-1677. 
Ensign in Chelmsford, 
Mass., Militia, Middlesex 
Regiment, King Philip's 
War. 
Fletcher, George Moore. 



Ford, Thomas, 



1676, Wind- 



sor, Conn. Deputy, 1638, et 
seq. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Foster, Abraham, 1703 



Reading, Mass. Private in 
Captain Green's Company 
for relief of Fort William 
Henry, 1757. 
Foster, Williain H. 

Foster, Captain Jeremiah, 
1691-1796, Chebacco (Ips- 
wich) . Captain of the 
Sixth Company, Fifth Mas- 
sachusetts Regiment, in the 
Louisburg Expedition. 
Foster, Joseph. 

Frisbee, John, 1650-1694. Dep- 
uty from Branford, Conn., 
1690-'92. 
Plant, Morton Freeman. 

Fuller. Captain Matthew, 
1610-1678. Sergeant under 
Myles Standish, 1643. Lieu- 
tenant at Barnstable, 1652. 
Lieutenant, Captain Stan- 
dish's Expedition against 
Manhattoes Colony, 1654. 
Chairman, Council of War. 



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95 



Lieutenant of the Forces 
against the Saconet Indi- 
ans, 1671. Surgeon-Gen- 
eral, 1673. Captain, King 
Philip's War. 
Flint, Wyman Kneeiand. 

Gallop (Gallup), John, 

1650, Boston. In a fight 
with the Pequot Indians oft" 
Block Island, 1636, called 
the first naval engagement 
in New England waters. 
Smith, William D. G. 

GiDDiNGS, Lieutenant Daniel, 
1704-1771, of Chebacco (Ips- 
wich). Lieutenant, Captain 
Jeremiah Foster's Com- 
pany, 5th Massachusetts 
Regiment, Louisburg Expe- 
dition. Representative, Mas- 
sachusetts General Court, 
1758. 
Foster, Joseph. 

Giddinge, George, 1608-1676, 
Ipswich, Mass. Deputy to 
General Court of Massa- 
chusetts, 1641, et seq. 
Foster-, Joseph. 

Gilman, Captain John, 1624- 
1708, Exeter, N. H. Lieu- 
tenant, 1669. Member Coun- 
cil Province New Hamp- 
shire, 1680. Assembly, 
1693-1697. Speaker, 1695. 

Folsom, William H. 

Gilman, Daniel, 

Goodhue, William, 1613-1699, 
Ipswich, Mass. Deputy to 
the General Court, 1666, et 
seq., eight years. 
Foster, Joseph. 

Gorton, Samuel, 1592 - 1677. 
Assistant, 1649. President 
of Providence & Warwick, 
1651-'52. Commissioner to 
the Narragansett Indians. 



Deputy, 1652-'66, Rhode Is- 
land. 
Waterman, Lucius. 

Green, Judge Henry, 1620- 
1709, Hampton, N. H. Com- 
missioner for Hampton, 
1689. Councilor, 1692-'97. 
Scales, John. 

Green, Captain Jacob, 1654- 
1726, Hampton, N. H. Cap- 
tain of Hampton Militia 
from 1699 to 1720, and did 
valuable service under Ma- 
jor Winthrop Hilton in 
guarding the frontiers. 
Scales, Jolin. 

Greene, Assistant-Governor 
James, 16zO-16S8, Warwick, 
R. I. Governor's Assistant 
Rhode Island Colony, 1670- 
'71. 
Waterman, Lucius. 

Greene, John, 1597-1658. Com- 
missioner, Rhode Island, 
1654-'57. Deputy, 1654. 
Brown, Elisha Rhodes. 
Brown, Harold Winthrop. 

Greene, Deputy - Governor 
John, 1620-1708. Commis- 
sioner to the General Court, 
1652-'63. Attorney-General, 
1657-'60. Assistant, 1660- 
'90. Colonial Agent to Eng- 
land, 1670. Member of Gov- 
ernor Andros' Council, 1686. 
Deputy, 1664-'80. "Major 
for the Main," 1696. Dep- 
uty - Governor, 1690 - 1700. 
Captain, 1676. Major, 1683. 
Colony of Rhode Island. 

Brown, Elisha Rhodes. 

Broivn, Harold Winthrop. 

Greene, Peter, Warwick, R. I. 

Deputy, Rhode Island, 1737, 

et seq. 
Brown, Elisha Rhodes. 
Broivn, Harold Winthrop. 



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THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 



Greenleap, Captain Edmund, 
1600-1671, Newbury, Mass. 
Ensign, 1639. Lieutenant, 

1642. Captain, 1645. 
Jones, Rev. William Northy. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Greenleaf, Captain Stephen, 
1630-1690. Drowned dur- 
ing Expedition against Port 
Royal, 1690. Ensign, 1670. 
Lieutenant, 1685. 
alley, Harry Bouton. 

Greyson, Thomas, 1646, 

New Haven. One of the 
founders and the first treas- 
urer of the New Haven Col- 
ony. One of the Commis- 
sioners who formed a union 
of New England Colonies, 

1643. Commissioner to Eng- 
land, 1646, but the ship in 
which he sailed was lost at 
sea. 

Plant, Morton Freeman. 

Griswold, Samuel, 1665-1740, 
Norwich, Conn. Deputy, 
October, 1707. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Griswold, Edward, 1607-1691, 
Connecticut. Built "Old 
Fort," Springfield. Deputy, 
Windsor and Killingsworth, 
Conn. Deputy, 1656-'63, 
1667-'89. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Griswold, Lieutenant Francis, 
1635-1671, Norwich, Conn. 
Lieutenant, Train Band, 
1665-'66. Deputy, 1664-'68- 
'71. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Guyther, Colonel Nicholas, 
1625-1680, St. Mary's Coun- 
ty, Md. Lieutenant, . 

Captain, 1652. Colonel, 
1680. Sheriff of St. Mary's 



County, 1650, et seq. Mem- 
ber Lower House of Bur- 
gesses, 1664. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Hale, Sergeant Thomas, 1638- 
1688, Nev/bury, Mass. Ser- 
geant of Militia, 1652-1657. 
Watson, Irving AUiso7i. 

Hall, Lieutenant Ralph, 1619- 
1701, Exeter, N. H. Lieu- 
tenant, Dover Company, 
1656. Deputy, 1680. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Harriman, Matthew, 1673- 
1743, Haverhill, Mass. 
Served as a soldier in Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Saltonstall's 
"Snowshoe Company," in 
Haverhill, Mass., 1710-1712. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Harris, Lieutenant Andrew, 
1635-1686, Providence, R. L 
Deputy, Rhode Island Gen- 
eral Asembly, 1669, '70-'76. 

Brown, Elisha Rhodes. 

Brown, Harold Winthrop. 

Harris, Assistant - Governor 
Thomas, 1686, Provi- 
dence, R. L Governor's As- 
sistant, Rhode Island Col- 
ony, 1666-'69, 1671-'75. 
Lucius Waterman. 

Harris, William, 1610-16-31. 
Commissioner to Court of 
Commissioners, 1660-'62. 
Deputy, Rhode Island, 1665- 
'66, '72-'73. Governor's As- 
sistant, '66-'70, '73-'76. Gen- 
eral Solicitor, 1671. 

Brown, Elisha Rhodes. 

Brown, Harold Winthrop. 

Hill, Abraham, 1734-1812. Sol- 
dier in French and Indian 
War. 
Hill, Howard Fremont. 



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97 



Hinckley, Governor Thomas, 
1618-1706, Barnstable, Ply- 
mouth Colony. Deputy to 
the General Court, 1646, 
-48-'49, '54-'55. Assistant, 
1658-'80. Commissioner for 
the United Colonies, 1678- 
'92. Deputy-Governor, 1680. 
Governor, 1681-'92. Coun- 
cillor of the Province of 
Massachusetts Bay, 1686. 
Member of the Council un- 
der Andros, 1687. Commis- 
sioner from Plymouth Col- 
ony for the management of 
the Military Forces against 
King Philip, 1675-6. Pres- 
ent at the Great Swamp 
Fight. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

HoLDEN, Lieutenant Charles, 
1666-1717. Rhode Island 
Deputy, 1710-'16. Lieuten- 
ant. 

Brown, Elisha Rhodes. 

Brown, Harold Winthrop. 

HoLDEN, Captain Randall, 
1612-1692. Marshall and 
Corporal at Portsmouth, R. 
I., 1638. Assistant, 1647, 
et seq. Cantain, 1664. Dep- 
uty, 1666-'86. 
Brown, Elisha Rhodes. 
Brown, Harold Winthrop. 

Holmes, Obadiah, 1607-1682. 
Member Special Governor's 
Council, King Philip's War. 
Representative, Rhode Is- 
land, at Newport and Ports- 
mouth, 1656. 

Brown, Elisha Rhodes. 

Brown, Harold Winthrop. 



How (e), John, Sr., 



1687, 
Com- 



HowE, Abraham, 



1695, 



Marlborough and Sudbury, 
Mass. In garrison there, 
King Philip's War. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 



Marlborough, Mass. 
manded a Garrison House 
at Marlborough, King 
PhiHp's War, 1675-'76. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

HowLAND, John, 1592-1673. 
Signer of the Compact on 
Mayflower, 1620. In the 
"First Encounter," Great 
Meadow Creek, December 
6, 1620. Assistant to Gov- 
ernor, 1633-'35. In com- 
mand of Kennebec Trading 
Post, 1634. Deputy to Gen- 
eral Court, 1641, et seq. 
The "beloved Pilgrim." 
Coit, James Milnor. 

HowLET, Sergeant Thomas, 
1599-1678, Ipswich, Mass. 
Deputy to the General 
Court, 1635. Ensign of the 
Ipswich Military Company 
under Captain Daniel Den- 
nison. Third Regiment un- 
der Colonel John Endicott, 
1636. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Hoyt, Sergeant John, 1610- 
1696, Salisbury, Mass. Ser- 
geant, Salisbury Company, 
1658. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Humphrey, Michael, 



1695. 
In Windsor Dragoons, 1667. 
Deputy from Simsbury, 
Conn., 1670. In service at 
Windsor, 1675-'76. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Hunking, Colonel Mark, 1670- 
1729, Portsmouth, N. H. 
Delegate to the General 
Assembly, 1693-1710. Coun- 
cillor, 1710-1729. Judge of 
Superior Court, 1712-1729. 
He first appeared on the 
Provincial Record as Colonel 
on August 21, 1716. 
Scales, John. 



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INGALLS, Lieutenant Samuel, 

1714, Ipswich, Mass. 

Served under Majors Wil- 
lard and Appleton, King 
Philip's War. Lieutenant 
in Captain Thomas Wade's 
Troop,MassachusettsForces, 
1691. Representative, 1690. 
Foster, Joseph. 

Ingersoll, Lieutenant George, 
1618-1694, Salem, Mass., 
and of Casco (Falmouth) 
now Portland, Me. Lieu- 
tenant and Military Of- 

" ficer of Falmouth, 1668. 
Lieutenant, York Regiment, 
King Philip's War, 1675- 
1676. Representative, Prov- 
ince of Maine, 1683-1685. 

Foster, Joseph. 

Ingersoll, Samuel, 1657-1734, 
Casco and Gloucester. Sol- 
dier in King Philip's War, 
1675-1676. 
Foster, Joseph. 

Jackson, John, 1635 - 1722, 
Portsmouth, N. H. Soldier 
in King William's War, 
1696. In Garrison at Oyster 
River, N. H., 1696. 
Foster, Joseph. 

Jacob, Captain John, 

1693, Hingham, Mass. Cap- 
tain in King Philip's War. 
Commanded a Company of 
foot in defense of Medfield, 
Mass., February 21, 1677. 
On death of Captain John- 
son, succeeded to the com- 
mand of his Company in 
Narragansett Campaign. 
Member of the Ancient and 
Honorable Artillery Com- 
pany. 
Morse, Fred Winslow. 



Jaquett, Governor Jean Paul, 
Newcastle, Delaware. Gov- 
ernor of New Sweden, 1655- 
'57. Justice of Newcastle, 
1676-'82. 
Beatty, Franklin Thomason. 

Jenckes, Governor Joseph, 
Providence, R. I., 1656-1740. 
Assistant Governor Rhode 
Island Colony, 1708-'12. 
Deputy-Governor, 1715-'27. 
Governor, 1727-'32. 
Watc7'nian, Lucius. 

Joy, Samuel, 1639-1671, Boston, 
Mass. Member Ancient and 
Honorable Artillery Com- 
pany, 1665. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Joy, Thomas, 1611-1678, Hing- 
ham, Mass. Member An- 
cient and Honorable Artil- 
lery Company, 1658. 
Smith, William D. G. 

JuDD, Thomas, circ. 1608-1688, 
Farmington, Conn. Deputy 
from Hartford to General 
Assembly, 1646, et seq.; from 
Waterbury, 1662, et seq.; 
from Farmington, 1667, et 
seq. 
Smith, William D. G. 



King, Fearnot, 1655-1703, West- 
field, Mass. Soldier in King 
Philip's War. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Kinsman, Quartermaster Rob- 
ert, 1629 - 1712, Ipswich, 
Mass. Soldier in Captain 
Nicholas Manning's Com- 
pany, King Philip's War. 
Quartermaster, 1684, and in 
1691. Imprisoned by An- 
dros for his prominent part 



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99 



in the refusal of Ipswich 
to pay taxes levied without 
consent of the General 
Court, 1687. Representa- 
tive, 1692. 
Foster, Joseph. 

Ladd, Samuel, 1649-1698, Hav- 
erhill, Mass. Member of 
Captain John Whipple's 
Company, King Philip's 
War. Killed by Indians, 
February 22, 1698. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Latham, Cary, 1613-1685, Gro- 
ton. Conn. Deputy to Gen- 
eral Court, 1664-1670. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Leighton, Captain John, 1661- 
1724. Ensign and Captain, 
Queen Anne's War, 1704. 
Deputy, Massachusetts, 

1704-1717. 
Leighton, George B. 

Longfellow, Nathan, 1690- 
1730, Hampton, N. H. Mem- 
ber of Captain Joseph 
Swett's Hampton Company. 
This company was engaged 
against the Indians at Saco, 

, 1707. 
Scales, John. 

Longfellov/, Ensign William, 
1651-1690. Ensign in the 
Newbury Company in Sir 
William Phipp's expedition 
against Quebec, and in re- 
turning was shipwrecked 
and drowned on coast of 
Antecosta, October 31, 1690. 
Scales, John. 

Loomis, Joseph, 1590-1658, 
Windsor, Conn. Deputy, 
1643-'44. 
Smith, William D. G. 



Loomis, Lieutenant Samuel, 

1689, Westfield, Mass. 

Ensign, 1674. Lieutenant, 

Smith, William D. G. 

McCoBB, Captain James, 1710- 
1792, Londonderry, N. H. 
Obtained men for garrison 
duty, 1746. Appointed to 
discharge muster rolls, 1748- 
'49. Justice of the Peace, 
1771. Justice of the Supe- 
rior Court of Common 
Pleas, 1774. 
Knowltoyi, John Greenleaf 
Whittier. 

McClary, Captain John, 1719- 
1801, Epsom. Soldier in 
Captain Joseph Thomas' 
Company of Scouts at the 
relief of Epsom, N. H., 
1747, under orders from 
Governor Benning Went- 
worth. Subsequently Cap- 
tain of New Hampshire 
Provincial Militia. 
Bangs, Charles McClary. 

Millet, Hon. Thomas, 1689- 
1761, Dover, N. H. Repre- 
sentative from Dover, 1731, 
et seq. Speaker of the' 
House, 1755. Judge of the 
Superior Court, 1740-'42. 
Captain. 
Smith, William D, G. 

Neale, Lieutenant Anthony 
1659-1723. Lieutenant in 
Captain Brandt's Militia 
Company, Charles County, 
Md., 1686. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Neale, Captain James, 1615- 
1684. Provincial Council, 
1643, et seq. Member House 



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of Burgesses, 1666. Com- 
missioner of the Treasury. 
Captain, 1661, to raise 
troops against the Dutch. 
Smith, William D. G. 

NoYEs, Nicholas, 1614-1701. 
Deputy, 1660, et seq.. Col- 
ony of Massachusetts Bay. 
Watso7i, Irving Allison. 

Peabody, John, 1590-1667. In 
Duxbury Military Company, 
under Captain Myles Stan- 
dish, 1643. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Peabody, William. Pabodie 
(or Peabody, or Peabodie), 
William, 1620-1707, Dux- 
bury, Mass., Little Compton, 
R. I. In Captain Myles 
Standish's Company, 1643. 
Deputy, 1654, et seq. 
Smith, William D. G. 



Peake, Christopher, 



1666, 



Roxbury, Mass. Member of 
Roxbury Military Company, 
1647. 

Brown, Elisha Rhodes. 

Brown, Harold Winthrop. 

Pillsbury, Captain Caleb, 1717- 
1778, Amesbury, Mass. Cap- 
tain, 2d Regiment, Essex 
County Militia, 1771. 
Pillsbury, Rosecrans W. 

Plant, John. Soldier in King 
Philip's War. Was one of 
the English Volunteers to 
whom the Connecticut Gen- 
eral Court awarded a plan- 
tation on petition of Lieu- 
tenant Thomas Leffingwell. 
Riant, Morton Freeman. 

Powers, Captain Peter, 



1757. Captain of the 3d 
Company, Colonel Joseph 



Blanchard's Regiment, 
Crown Point Expedition, 
1755. 
Forbes, Harry R. 

Remick, Lieutenant David, 
1732-1793, Haverhill, Mass. 
Lieutenant in Captain Gid- 
eon Parker's Company,Colo- 
nel Abijah William's Regi- 
ment, 1759. At Louisburg, 
Ticonderoga and Quebec. 
Remich, Daniel C. 

Rhoades, Attorney - General 
John, 1658-1716. Rhode 
Island Deputy. Clerk of 
Assembly. 

Bro'wn, Elisha Rhodes. 

Brown, Harold Winthy-op. 

Rhodes, Major John, 1691- 
1776, Warwick, R. I. Dep- 
uty, Rhode Island, 1742- 
1753. Major. 

Broivn, Elisha Rhodes. 

Brown, Harold Winthrop. 

Rhodes, Zachariah, 1603-1665. 
Providence, R. I. Commis- 
sioner, 1658-'63. Deputy, 
1663-'65. 
Brown, Elisha Rhodes. 
Brown, Harold Winthrop. 

Rice, Caleb, 1666-1739, Marl- 
borough, Mass. Deputy of 
the General Court, 1723-'25, 
'27. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Rice, Edmund, 1594-1663, Sud- 
bury, Mass. Deputy, 1640, 
'43, '52-'54. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Rice, Jabez, 1702-1783, Marl- 
borough, Mass. Soldier in 
Lieutenant Maynard's Com- 
pany for the relief of Fort 
William Henry, 1757. 
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101 



Rice, Joseph, 1637-1685, Marl- 
borough, Mass. Owned a 
Garrison House, King 
Philip's War, 1675 - 1676. 
Deputy, 1683. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

RiGGS, Thomas, 1632-1722, Glou- 
cester, Mass. Town Clerk 
fifty-one years. Selectman, 
twenty years. Representa- 
tive, 1700. 
Foster, Joseph. 

Rust, Quartermaster Nathan- 
iel, 1639-1713, Ipswich, 
Mass. Quartermaster, Ex- 
pedition to Canada, 1690. 
Deputy, 1690-1691. 
Foster, Joseph. 

Seabury, Samuel, 1640-1681, 
Duxbury, Mass. Deputy, 
1676. Ensign, 1678. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Sewall, Henry, 1620 - 1665. 
Principal Secretary of 
Maryland, 1661-1665. Dep- 
uty, 1661, et seq. Governor's 
Council, 1661. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Sewall, Deputy - Governor 
Nicholas, 1655-1737. Mem- 
ber and Secretary, Province 
Council, Maryland, 1686. 
Deputy-Governor, 1689. Ma- 
jor of Militia. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Sill (Syll), Captain Joseph, 
1636-1696, Lyme, Conn. In 
King Philip's War, and Ex- 
peditions against Indians in 
Massachusetts, Maine, and 
New Hampshire. 
Banning, Kendall. 

Smith, Lieutenant George, 
Dover, N. H. Lieutenant in 
a Military Company in 



Dover, 1645. Associate Jus- 
tice of the County Court. 
Brown, Harold Winthrop. 

Smith, Captain John, 1669- 
1744, Oyster River, Dover, 
N. H. Captain of Com- 
pany at Oyster River. Held 
his Garrison against the 
French and Indians at the 
Oyster River Massacre, 
1694. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Smith, Major Joseph, 1724- 
1765, Durham, N. H. Lieu- 
tenant in Colonel Oilman's 
Company in Expedition 
against Crown Point, at 
Seige of Louisburg, and 
promoted to Major. 
Brown, Harold Winthrop. 

Smith, Colonel Samuel, 1687- 
1760, Durham, N. H. Royal 
Councillor, 1742-1760. On 
important committees dur- 
ing French and Indian 
War, including Committee 
on Louisburg Expedition. 
Many years in Militia, at- 
taining rank of Colonel. 

Smith, Forrest S. 

Brown, Harold Wurth. 

SOUTHWORTH, GENERAL CON- 
STANT, 1615-1679, Duxbury. 
In Pequot War, 1637. En- 
sign, Duxbury Company, 
1646. Deputy twenty-two 
years. Lieutenant, 1653. 
Deputy-Treasurer of Ply- 
mouth Colony. Member 
Council of War, 1658. Com- 
missioner for United Col- 
onies, 1668. Commissary- 
General, King Philip's War. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Spalding, John, 1633-1721, 
Chelmsford, Mass. Served, 
1676, in King Philip's War 



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under Captain Nicholas 
Manning. 
Foster, Joseph. 

Starbuck, Edward, 1604-1690, 
Dover, N. H., and Nantuck- 
et, Mass. Representative, 
Dover, 1643-'46. 
Jones, Rev. William Northy. 

Stevens, Otto, Jr., 1726-1759. 
Soldier in Captain Jacob 
Bayley's Company at the 
storming of Quebec. A fall 
w^hile climbing the Heights 
of Abraham resulted in his 
death. 
Jones, Rev. Willia7n Northy. 

Stone, Simon\ 1585-1665, Wa- 
tertown, Mass. Deputy, 
1636-'56. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Stone, SIM0N^ 1631-1708, Wa- 
tertown, Mass. Deputy, 
1678-'90. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Strong, Elder John, 1605-1699. 
Deputy, 1641, et seq., Ply- 
mouth Colony. 
Smith, William D. G. 

Swan, Robert, 1628-1698. Hav- 
erhill, Mass. In Great 
Swamp Fight, Lieutenant 
Benjamin Swett's Company. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 



Tew, Richard, 



1673. Dep- 



uty, Rhode Island, 1654, et 
seq. Assistant, 1657. 

Brown, Elisha Rhodes. 

Brown, Harold Winthrop. 

Thorne, Quartermaster John, 
Kingston, N. H. Was in 
Captain Marston's Com- 
pany, of Exeter, Colonel 
John Goflf, and served in the 



Expedition to Crown Point. 
Enrolled September 30,1762. 
Thorne, John Calvin. 



Thurston, Daniel, 1693, 

Newbury, Mass. 



Trooper, 
under Captain Samuel Ap- 
pleton, King Philip's War. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

TiLESTON, Lieutenant Timothy, 
1637-1697, Dorchester, Mass. 
Deputy, 1689-'92. In Cap- 
tain Wadsworth's Company, 
under Major-General Wins- 
low, King Philip's War. En- 
sign, 1689. Lieutenant,' 1694. 
Fish, Charles H. 

TiLTON, Daniel, Hampton, N. 
H., 1646-1715. Representa- 
tive to General Assembly of 
New Hampshire from Hamp- 
ton, 1693, 1695, 1702, 1709- 
'14. Speaker of the Assem- 
bly, 1702. In charge of Gar- 
rison House at Hampton, 
and called "Ensign" on 
Hampton Records. 
Tilton, George Henry. 

Treat, Governor Robert, 1622- 
1710, Milford, Conn. Lieu- 
tenant, 1654. Captain, 1661. 
Commanding at Great 
Swamp Fight. Major com- 
manding Connecticut Troops, 
Hadley and Springfield, 
1673. Deputy - Governor, 
1676-'82. Appointed Gov- 
ernor, 1683. In the en- 
counter with the Indians at 
Bloody Brook, September 18, 
1675, his arrival on the 
scene of action with the 
Connecticut Forces turned 
the tide. Colonel, 1687. 
Goodwin, Augustus F. 

True, Captain Henry, 1645- 
1735, Salisbury, Mass. Cap- 



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103 



tain of Salisbury Company, 
1696 to 1722. Representa- 
tive to General Court from 
Salisbury, 1689, 1695. 
Scales, John. 

Tyng, Edward, 1600-1681, Bos- 
ton. Deputy, General Court, 
1661-1662. Assistant, 1668- 
1681. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Tyng, Governor Edward, 1649 

. Commander of Fort 

Loyal, 1680-1681. Member 
of the Council, Province of 
Maine, 1686. Lieutenant- 
Colonel and Commander of 
the Province of Laganeduck, 
1681-1689. Governor of 
Nova Scotia, 1690. 
Watso7i, Irving Allison. 

Ward, Samuel, 1664-1729, Marl- 
borough, Mass. Soldier in 
King Philip's War. Deputy 
at the General Court, 1679- 
1680. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Ward, William, 1597-1687, Sud- 
bury, Mass. In Garrison at 
Marlborough, October, 1675, 
King Philip's War. Deputy 
to the General Court, 1644, 
1646. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Waterman, Richard, 1590-1673. 

Deputy, Rhode Island, 1655- 

'56-'58. 
Brown, Elisha Rhodes. 
Brown, Harold Winthrop. 

Watson, Jonathan, 1696-1777, 
Amesbury, Mass., and South 
Hampton, N. H. Soldier in 
Captain Samuel Wheel- 
wright's Company, 1724. 
Soldier in Captain Daniel 



Ladd's Company, Colonel 
Samuel Moore's Regiment, 
in Expedition against Louis- 
burg, 1745. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Watts, Samuel, Sr. A soldier 
in Lieutenant Benjamin 
Swett's Company in King 
Philip's War. 
Jones, Rev. William Northy. 

Wheeler, Daniel, 1736-1775. 
Soldier in Captain Peter 
Powers' Company in the 
French War, 1755. 
Wheeler, Giles. 

Wheeler, James, 1702 



Soldier in Captain Peter 
Powers' Company in the 
French War, 1755. 
Wheeler, Giles. 

Whipple, John, 1605-1669, Ips- 
wich, Mass. Deputy to the 
General Court, 1640, et seq. 
Watson, Irving Allison. 

Whittemore, Rev. Aaron, 1711- 
1767, Pembroke, N. H. Lieu- 
tenant in command of Gar- 
rison at Pembroke. Lieu- 
tenant in Captain Moses 
Foster's Company ; scout- 
ing, 1748. 
Whittemore, Arthur Gilman. 

Wilkinson, John, 1654-1708, 
Providence, R. I. Soldier in 
King Philip's War. Deputy 
to General Assembly, 1700, 
1706. 
Waterman, Lucius. 

Willey, John, 1645-1722, New 
York, Soldier in the Nar- 
ragansett Campaign, King 
Philip's War, 1675-6. 
Batchelder, Nathaniel Hay- 
wood. 



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"Williams, Governor Roger, 
1599-1683. Captain, Provi- 
dence, R. I., King Philip's 
War. Governor, 1654. As- 
sistant, 1647. Deputy, 1667. 

Brown, Elisha Rhodes. 

Brown, Harold Winthrop. 

Williams, Rev. Stephen, D. D. 
Chaplain of General Pep- 
perell, Louisburg, 1745. 
Chaplain of Sir William 
Johnson, Lake Champlain, 
1755. Chaplain of Gen. 
John Winslow, Crown Point, 
1756. 
Williams, Jared Irving. 

Winslow, Lieutenant Job, 
1641-1720, Freetown, Mass. 
Served in the fight at Swan- 
sea, 1675. Deputy, General 
Court, 1692, Charter of 
William and Mary. 
Jones, Rev. William Northy. 

WiNSLOVir, Kenelm, 1599-1672. 
Deputy to the Plymouth 
General Court, 1642-1653. 
Jones, Rev. William Northy. 



Winthrop, Governor John, 
1587-1649. First Governor 
of Massachusetts Bay Col- 
ony, 1629, et seq. Assistant 
1635 and 1641. Deputy- 
Governor, 1636 and 1644. 
Commissioner for United 
Colonies, 1643 and 1645. 
Colonel, Suffolk Regiment, 
1636. 

Smith, Joshua B. 

Smith, William D. G. 

Woodman, Captain John. Cap- 
tain in charge of Wood- 
man's Garrison, Durham, N. 
H. Captain before 1690, but 
his commission was renewed 
in that year by Governor 
Phipps. Successfully de- 
fended his Garrison at the 
time of the Oyster River 
Massacre, and although he 
sustained several other at- 
tacks his Garrison was 
never captured. 
Scales, John. 



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